Bailing is bad, mkay? Used to piss me off greatly in GC... even though people died when their aircraft was about to explode they did it to stop you from earning the kill >:-( I am for locking the players in the aircraft, but is there the possibility of only locking them in when the aircraft is seriously damaged? That way people can still suicide to death if they hate their pilot, but it cannot be used to escape being shot to oblivion by their adversaries.
P.S., I have no idea if this idea has been mentioned in the thread, because I couldn't be arsed to read through all the 13 pages of mindless drivel but I still felt like saying something on the topic
.. so sorry if this idea has already been mentioned 