btscott wrote on Jun 9^th, 2011 at 3:08pm:

If you walk through the jetway door into the terminal and your bag is in your possession within 30 minutes of your scheduled arrival time---- that is a terrific airline! I don't care whose logo is on the tail! My last 8-10 flights have been on SW. No delays, no lost luggage!! A weird boarding system, but it seems to work. They now allow you to check in early, on-line for, $10 pp per leg which gives you a preferential boarding sequence. That is most irritating! These incremental fees and charges really p--- me off! Your $160 fare all of a sudden is $206.50!   >:( Bruce

If you think commercial flight is expensive, try getting the requisite training and licenses, then rent an aircraft and pay for the fuel to do the same flight.  It will cost you an enormous amount of money to do this, and you sure won't be going 500 miles per hour or so at over 30,000.