Labor wants the airlines re-regulated and Obama is happy to oblige. This will please my Democrat friends who hate airline travel today and reminesce endlessly of the days when only “people of class” travelled by air. These folks hate Walmart customers but at least they can shop at Whole Foods and avoid them. The trouble with cheap plane tickets is that just about anyone can afford one with the result, God in heaven, that some fat, smelly Walmart customer ends up sitting next to you! The Messiah hears your plea and will answer it. Especially if it makes the AFL-CIO happy.
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Hate to break the bubble you live in, but those who bemoan the demise of high society peopling airline seats are, in my world anyway, more vociferous from buttoned-down conservative acquaintances than from the rabble on the other side, as you would have it.
In any case, whatever their ilk, travelers of a certain breed would rather avoid air travel altogether unless it’s on their own Gulfstream or, in a pinch, a friend’s.
If it isn’t a hirsute, redolent Walmart customer rubbing elbows in the seat beside you, it will certainly be a near match patting your personals, well before you can down that first cocktail.
Will fly for business, part of combat duty
Refuse to fly for leisure, except via G550
Staycations are far more enjoyable, cheaper, greener vs flying commercial, but commies don’t want to admit that neither tourism nor leisure flying is green
The unions are absolutely right in seeking reregualtion of the airlines. Competitive markets are death for the unions, because cost and efficiency will determine survival over the long term in a competitive business. Unions can survive in a competitive business, but they have no leverage. Push up wages or benefits or restrict flexibility and the employer goes bust. So unions always will seek to restrict competition. The winners are their members and their officers; the losers are their customers who get a lower standard of living.
Xyount, you maybe right, but no matter, if the unions are successful, CF’s core point remains, poor folk will have reduced access to air travel. Its simple, costs increase and demand is reduced.