"The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You" campaign is encouraging people to be more courteous in the air. It's also exhorting travelers to dress appropriately, to mind their children and their manners.
When the Department of Transportation announced a new campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 19 to encourage travelers to be more civil when they fly, it inevitably got people talking.
USA TODAY heard from many readers, who were pretty much all in agreement with the campaign's goals, but also said passengers alone aren't to blame for the current headaches in air travel.
"I agree that civility needs to be restored when flying. However, the airlines make that challenging by treating people like cattle, cramming them into ever decreasing seat space so that knees are hitting the seat back in front and shoulders are squished against total strangers," Mike Strauss, from Norman, Oklahoma, told USA TODAY in an email. "Unfortunately, when the airlines treat people like animals, it encourages people to act like animals."
Some also felt that the Trump administration isn't best positioned to advise on manners.
