Flying these days is really bad. Seats are smaller, storage is smaller, flight attendants and gate agents are meaner, and it's hard to get an empty seat next to you.

[Both Perrin and McGinnis recommend trying smaller, budget airlines for better service -- and better fares.] The other day I flew from JFK to Orlando, and back from Fort Lauderdale, ... On the way down, I flew Delta Express, which I thought would be the same as Delta, but it's not ... it was a nightmare. When the person in front of you reclined their seat, they were in your lap. You had no choice but to recline -- and there wasn't even enough space to read.

He was agitated during the flight, but complied with the flight attendants.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

It's more informational, so the public understands the plight of the flight attendants and why they have not been getting pay raises.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.