Joe Nocera, Columnist

My Two-Part Plan to Fix Air-Travel Hell

Part 1: A common-sense rule. Part 2: Secondary ticket markets. (And shouldn't airlines think of travelers as customers, not cargo?)

July 18, 2017 at 2:29 PM UTC

By Joe Nocera

Joe Nocera is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."

This probably won't end well.
Photographer: David Williams/Bloomberg

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I rise in defense of Ann Coulter.

Well, okay, not exactly. The conservative firebrand’s "I hate Delta" Twitter tantrum over the weekend, after she was moved from an extra-legroom aisle seat she had booked and paid for, was unquestionably over the top. For ugly starters, she tweeted out (to her 1.6 million followers!) a snapshot of the woman who took "her" seat, a woman who had really done nothing wrong.