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Airline CEOs Beg Customers To Push Congress On Speculation
CNN money ^ | 7-9-08 | CNN

Posted on 07/09/2008 10:56:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Expecting to lose an estimated $10 billion this year because of skyrocketing fuel costs, chief executives of the country's biggest airlines Wednesday resorted to begging their customers to press Congress for tougher regulation of energy markets.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: 110th; airlines; corporateidiots; corporatewelfare; energy; energyprices; gas; oil; speculation; speculators
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To: Prole
7.) bacteria and disease prone "shoe free" inspection zones: No more of this. Someone help me out here.

Considering the guy who originated this tactic has died (someone gave Reid the idea), what are the chances of this being "the" plot again?

There are also plots about using body cavities to carry plastic explosives. The TSA knows NOBODY would stand for vag and anal exams with rubber gloves to board every flight. Making us remove our shoes is just as extreme.

Give a hefty bounty to anybody to tackles a terrorist in the act trying to ignite a shoe bomb. Let dogs sniff the feet of passengers for suspicious materials.

There are other ways to address this risk. Some day we WILL all be flying naked (maybe clothed special airline provided jumpsuits) with NO carry on baggage.

21 posted on 07/10/2008 12:46:23 AM PDT by weegee (Hi there!)
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To: Prole

Remember to consider the blocked seats for special fares such as businesses.


22 posted on 07/10/2008 12:56:14 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Prole

Remember to consider the blocked seats for special fares such as businesses.


23 posted on 07/10/2008 12:56:14 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: NoLibZone

HEY!!!!
United and American Airlines...DROP DEAD.
You both bumped me from flights (in the US) after traveling all the way back from the Middle East.
Go to hell.

When I protested I was threatened with “missing” the next available flight by an indifferent staff.
I hope both of your airlines tank.


24 posted on 07/10/2008 3:48:22 AM PDT by LFOD (IRAQ - Back in Dixie)
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To: Gondring

Southwest also signed this with 11 other airlines


25 posted on 07/10/2008 4:01:39 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: ZULU
There's no such thing as the "Enron Loophole"

If what you really mean is a radical intervention by the government into financial market,s be careful what you wish for. the cure will definitely be worse than the disease.

26 posted on 07/10/2008 4:09:19 AM PDT by tcostell (MOLON LABE - http://freenj.blogspot.com - RadioFree NJ)
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To: fabian

You should really learn something about economics before you say something so utterly foolish.


27 posted on 07/10/2008 4:10:47 AM PDT by tcostell (MOLON LABE - http://freenj.blogspot.com - RadioFree NJ)
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To: NoLibZone

Since the Alaska pipeline is running at half capacity today, drilling ANWR will add enough oil to fill it up.

Drill here, drill now, pay less, even airline CEOs will pay less. Waht’s so hard to understand about that?


28 posted on 07/10/2008 4:11:24 AM PDT by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: NoLibZone
Dear Airline CEO's:

I recommend you hire a team comprised of retired employees of Aeroflot from the Brezhnev era, and task them with improving your customer service.

Once we have brought service levels up to, say, 1974 Soviet standards, I expect that the flying public will be so much happier that you will get a good deal of public support for your proposed bailout.

Sincerely (g) Notary Sojac

29 posted on 07/10/2008 4:33:12 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (My grandkids will ask-Was there really a time when I could get on a plane without removing my shoes?)
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To: Prole
Increase the number of fresh oxygen tanks onboard each plane to correlate with the number of passengers and the number of hours each bird is in the air

Cabin air is typically a 50/50 mix of recycled air and outside air. The engines(which are giant air pumps) pump outside air into the cabin to increase air pressure to 5000 feet msl. If the mixture is raised, the efficiency of the engines goes down. Cabin air that is recycled goes through hepa filters. You're more likely to get a disease from the surfaces you touch on the plane, not the air.

30 posted on 07/10/2008 4:36:16 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: americanophile

I support anything that results in a free market.

When speculators manipulate the market, then it is no longer a free market.

If these executives are correct, then I support them. It has nothing to do with the airline industry, late flights, or lost luggage.


31 posted on 07/10/2008 5:11:01 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: xDGx; americanophile; Prole

If I got the same shoddy, undependable service delivered with a sh!tty attitude from ANY other vendor or service provider, I’d never buy from them again. With the airlines, you buy from them or you drive. Within a five hour radius, that’s an acceptable alternative. For coast to coast travel, or even traveling half way across the country, driving just isn’t an option. So they have us in a trap, and they know it.


32 posted on 07/10/2008 6:29:02 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (I have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance policies.)
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To: NoLibZone; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
The airlines blame much of the high fuel costs on "excessive" speculation in the market.>/i>

Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.

33 posted on 07/10/2008 7:56:44 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: fabian; xzins
it’s stupid to have a commodity like oil which is the life blood of our economy, be part of a market which can and is being manipulated for higher profit.

Are you serious? This is the definition of capitalism. Government interference and regulation always drives up prices and results in shortages, only a free market (which does not exist in energy markets thanks to government), can deliver services in abudance at a low price and these CEOs somehow don't get it and are pushing to drive up fuel prices even higher if their idiot advocacy plans were actually implimented. One would think that those who had the most to loose from high oil prics would push for the correct solutions (eliminate taxes, and regulations (both in gas mixes and restrictions on how companies can act overseas, oil refinery permits etc.. and remove drilling prohibitions etc...), unless this is just a gimmick to try to keep the customers from being mad at the higher ticket prices.
34 posted on 07/10/2008 8:04:14 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: tcostell
Our economy is collapsing because of higher fuel costs.

Even people in the oil industry state that the current costs are reflective of speculation in the commodity markets.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

If we tell people who are losing their jobs and can't afford to pay the escalating costs of food prices and other commodities to wait until the market adjusts itself, we are risking a revolution or socialist take over. I don;t think its worth the gamble.

35 posted on 07/10/2008 8:18:43 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: NoLibZone

Worst thing happen to me. I was to go to PHoenix for job training. [I live in Herndon(Where Dulles is) near Washington D.C.) The flight was overbooked and my bags WENT ON THE PLANE TO PHX. To make things worst they had to reschedule my training for 2 weeks now. So now I won’t be starting my new job until JULY 21st. To make things even more insulting them DumF%^K at USAirways sent one of my bags to Reagan National. But the good thing is the Company (that hired me) will send me to Charllote, NC. But this time I will drive. I hate to say this but our airline service is horrible it is not even funny. I just wan’t good service again. Raise the fares if you have to (I.E. no bag fees or drink fees etc). I just want good service.


36 posted on 07/10/2008 8:19:11 AM PDT by Cripplehawk
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To: Prole
I just checked my itinerary on Continental Airlines and found this at the bottom of the page.

Carbon Offsetting Option Continental is committed to promoting environmental responsibility within its culture, which includes helping our customers to respond to concerns about climate change with a carbon offsetting option. We've partnered with Sustainable Travel International ("STI"), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and services that support environmental conservation, to provide this option to customers. If you want to leave continental.com to learn more about STI or to purchase carbon offsets from STI for this itinerary, go to sustainabletravelinternational.org/sti_offset_air/flights/c/2.

37 posted on 07/10/2008 8:19:50 AM PDT by saminfl (,/i)
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To: Prole
Increased recruitment incentives to armed US Air Marshals (accredited university and firearm educated personnel only) includes TAX FREE status to all personnel who on duty in this department. Incidentally, this ties into my plan for TAX FREE status to all personnel who work in life-threatening US government jobs. My TAX FREE strategy would be geared toward all active duty military folks, Coast Guard, FBI field agents, and other federal security personnel.

These people are already tax free. They are paid from the tax roles, giving a bit back has no bearing on that fact.
38 posted on 07/10/2008 8:47:00 AM PDT by Filo (Darwin was right!)
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To: NoLibZone

Not all the airlines are doing poorly.

Just the stupid poorly managed ones with bloated management ranks and overpaid union members with ridiculous contracts.

No different from Detroit.


39 posted on 07/10/2008 8:53:45 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Cripplehawk
Raise the fares if you have to (I.E. no bag fees or drink fees etc). I just want good service.

"You" get what you pay for. The airlines want artificially low ticket prices to engage in a price war with the competition.

40 posted on 07/10/2008 9:07:31 AM PDT by weegee (Hi there!)
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