[Jeff Chandler]

Please hold while I think of some Mexican airline jokes....

[Niteflyr]

NAU?....here we come!!

[Ken522]

Is Norman Y. Mineta still on the dole in Washington DC?

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The trouble with this brilliant scheme is that most of the major US hub airports are hopelessly overwhelmed with traffic.

To pull off anything as ambitious as a North American air transport system, the federal government would have to construct a dozen new airports far away from major metropolitan areas. Giant hubs connecting to destinations by rail, with strict prohibitions against development for miles around.

This is not unrealistic, and would essentially create a dual air traffic control system: one for passengers and one for cargo.

Destinations South of the US would be towards the Plan Puebla Panama zone in southern Mexico. It is slated to be an enormous transshipment hub for ship, rail and air. It would be central to both North America/South America cargo, but also for Atlantic/Pacific cargo.

Destinations North would be to either coast of Canada. Eastern Canada to Europe and western Canada to SE Asia.

However, such much of their brilliant and subversive scheme makes preposterous economic projections, and is based on the assumption that the reasons that this wasn’t done before was because people used to be stupid and didn’t care about money.

[upchuck]

Write your Congresscritter and ask him/her when they passed legislation authorizing this and how much of our money did they designate for this.

It’s amazing what the government can sneak through the back door when they really want to.

Another tick on the third-world clock.

[papasmurf]

As far as NAU is concerned, I am 100% opposed to it. Or anything that could even be construed as a NAU type of situation.

As far as International "seamlessness", I don't think it's a bad idea. The sky is crowded, and getting more so by the day. We need some sort of regionalized control under central management for the aircraft flying into, through and, near, our Country. Why shouldn't WE be the central managers?

I think that putting ourselves in a leadership position in an industry that is a huge part of the global economy is not a bad idea, either.

Globalism is here. It ain't going to go away, barring a world war. We can either be dragged into it, kicking and screaming, while THEY make the rules, or, we can lead the way and protect out interests, while also protecting safety and promoting some semblance of International fairness.

The main reason we don't like globalism, is we had a crappy team of negotiators doing our bidding for us, and we got the short end. But it ain't over, either. :)

As far as airline safety goes, International Mexican airlines are as safe as any. There are only two, at present to my knowledge, that would qualify to "gate" at a major airport, Aero Mexico, and Mexicana Airlines. Both of these airlines have very good safety records. Both, actually, have better records than...

Hawaiian Airlines
USAir Shuttle
WestJet
Midwest Express Airlines
JetBlue Airlines
United Express
ATA Airlines
American Eagle
Comair
AirTran Airways
Aloha Airlines


I've flown on AeroMexico and had great flights each time, was treated well, and have no complaints. Aeromexico, btw, is IATA certified.

Let's be fair, and reasonable, and choose our battles wisely.

No to NAU, yes to competition and air safety.

[AnimalLover]

What next?????

[AnimalLover]

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