Posted on 07/27/2011 10:18:47 AM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Airline stocks bottomed Wednesday after Delta Air Lines Inc.’s financial results that missed Wall Street targets and revived anxiety industry profits would shrink quickly at the end of the peak travel season.
Shares of the biggest U.S. carriers have been bouncing along at one-year lows this week: Jet fuel prices remain high, and though demand among well-heeled business travelers has held up despite concerns of an economic slowdown, leisure travel looks poised to drop.
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Merge them and change the name to Government Airlines and all will be good again, even the unions could be part of the airlines salvation. /s
Quick, send them some stimulus money!
Disband TSA and all will be well.
They treat their customers worse than most state DMV offices.
After 26 years of 120+ flights per year (avg), I can honestly say I have never been treated worse by any public or private entity than I have with the airlines.
When I first started flying, both the passengers and the airlines had some class. How it is worse than the Greyhound of the skies. Every prancing trolley dolly pushing a beverage cart thinks they can run your lives and when they royally screw up you will be on the short end of the stick.
Add to the airlines poor customer relations the JBTs in the TSA and flying is worse than going to the dentist.
How it is worse... = Now it is worse...
Why do I never see these errors in the preview but immediately upon posting?
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