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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.
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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.
Remember to consider the blocked seats for special fares such as businesses.
Remember to consider the blocked seats for special fares such as businesses.
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.
Southwest also signed this with 11 other airlines
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.
You should really learn something about economics before you say something so utterly foolish.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
"You" get what you pay for. The airlines want artificially low ticket prices to engage in a price war with the competition.
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