Poll: How Would You Improve Air Travel?

Commercial air travel is barely a century old, but it has come a long way from those first bumpy flights: Gone are the wicker seats, and the cabin is better insulated from the deafening roar of the engines. Gone too are the days when pilots navigated by sight, requiring them to stay below the clouds, flying through the turbulence rather than over it. And no one can deny that adding lavatories to planes was a good idea; in the old days, you just had to hold it.

Still, commercial air travel isn’t perfect. It can be frustrating, confusing, and cramped as airlines try to maximize profits by cramming as many passengers onto flights as they can and then finding myriad ways to tease more money from customers’ bank accounts.

But imagine you had the power to change one thing about air travel…