Airlines are subject to enshittification just as all other things are: • Diminished airline status returns • Increasingly large/overpriced shops/restaurants • More discrete seat/class upgrade costs, worse experience for base fare overall. • Higher security friction • Explosion of travel cards that overload lounges • Increased nationwide traffic so even the drive to the airport is worse • Costs of food purchases on plane (in the 90's any transcontinental flight usually had a free meal).

The only things that have gotten better are wifi and entertainment to act as recompense for less leg room.