The new math rules. I meant four things.
Hey
You buttered your bread, you sleep in it!
You combine American Airlines crappy customer service with a racebaiter looking for an excuse to make a fuss and you get stuff like this
Speaking of math, did the NAACP include any sort of stastical analysis to accompany their announcement? Something along the lines of “ during the period dd mmm yyyy to dd mmm yyyy, x,xxx,xxx African-Americans flew on American Airlines. Of these, xxx or xx.xxx percent had incidents that may have involved bias or prejudice on the part of airline staff or other passengers.”
No? Perhaps because the resulting percentage of incidents would be so small as to be truly trivial. I write this not to minimize the serious incidents when they do occur but to point out that with so many persons flowing through the system every day, incidents involving every race, age and sex have to be expected as a part of people in all sorts of moods interacting with a lot of other people who are also in all sorts of moods. Given the attitudes of passengers, ground staff and crew in many of these incidents and the resulting restrictions on what can and cannot be done, I am surprised there are not more on-the-ground flight cancellations.
The air transport system generally works well enough that people continue to fly on it DESPITE the increasing impositions being placed on them in the name of security and by the airlines (who seem to be in a constant search to find the tipping point between maximizing profit but still providing just enough service that people continue to fly).
Personally, if my destination is within a reasonable day’s drive (450-650 miles) and I have the flexibility in my work schedule to do so, I will always drive.