Flew from the very back of the plane for the first time. It’s bad — maybe $40-50 per ticket worse. It’s so loud you can’t hear music through earbuds even with your phone turned up to the max.
Though if you think about the middle of the plane situation in which you can hear music but only with your volume all the way up, that’s also really bad. Think about how painful it is to have your volume all the way up in normal situations. But it doesn’t seem like a big deal on a plane because you’ve been accustomed to really high air pressure hitting your ears.
I imagine the hearing loss rate among flight attendants is terrible.