Posted on 10/01/2020 1:00:23 PM PDT by rktman
“Flights have been full for months, that “half full” stuff ended back in May”
They cut the number of flights, so, no, everything is not back to normal. Think bigger picture.
“How much of that went toward executive salaries instead of pilots”
You sound like a retarded liberal engaging in class and anti-capitalism warfare.
Executive salaries are a very small portion of any airline’s salary structure. Get an education and stop being an ignorant idiot.
“They were given 50 billion dollars. “
Let’s educate this idiot liberal:
They were given $32 billion in March to tide them over for a few months. It has been 7 months. I know you liberals think like children so money grows on trees, but it doesn’t.
You idiots want the economy shutdown so it is, but now you don’t want to pay for your idiotic decision to shut down the economy.
Which union are you a member of?
The old axiom " If you want to make a small fortune in the Airline business, start off with a big fortune." is as true as it ever was.
We have had all kinds of airline bankruptcies in this country, American and Delta come to mind. American is so risky it appears they can't get the big banks or anyone to loan them money because of the fear of another American Airlines bankruptcy.
But there is a group that will loan American Airlines money -that's you and me, and other Freepers. (as taxpayers via our Government)
Another economic fiasco in the offing-the Airlines. -Tom
Without the money the airlines will now also have to raise prices dramatically. They’ve kept prices low using some of the original bailout, but that’s gone. Low fares are now a thing of the past.
I feel sympathy for the folks being laid off, but the business will not recover as long as they have these ridiculous mask policies. If I had to travel for work, I guess I’d have to go along, but flying for pleasure? I’m not keen on it. I might be forced to, just to get to Europe, but I think I speak for many who will lose some enthusiasm for airline travel as long as they do this.
High fares and flight attendants reprimanding customers that are willing to fly, about their mask position will not result in good business for AA or any other airline.
They had better relax the masks mandates. Not everyone can wear a mask for hours at a time.
The airlines and cruise ships are somewhat tied together since a lot of cruise passengers fly to the ships.
I realize the Airlines and Cruise lines have incredible hurdles to overcome, but I also feel some of the top officials have risen to their level of incompetence,when I see the decisions they have made in this crisis. -Tom
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The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
only the elite shall fly in “the new normal”:
30 Sept: Reuters: Travel slump threatens 46 million jobs, aviation group says
By Reuters Staff
PARIS - The impact of the coronavirus on travel may cost as many as 46 million jobs globally, according to projections published on Wednesday by an aviation industry group.
The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) predicted that the travel slump and a slow recovery will threaten 4.8 million aviation workers and more than half of the 87.7 million total jobs supported directly or indirectly by the sector, in related leisure industries and supply chains...
Airlines are pressing governments to abandon quarantines and other travel curbs blamed for worsening the slump, and instead roll-out rapid COVID-19 testing at airports.
https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-airlines-study/update-1-travel-slump-threatens-46-million-jobs-aviation-group-says-idINL8N2GR493
It doesn’t matter if it makes any sense. Destruction of our nation is all that matters.
Liberals desire the destruction of this nation.
Liberals grew up angry at their parents. They wanted to prove that their childish ways would work, but their ways don’t work.
Problem is, their parents’ ways do work.
So, liberals want to destroy their parent’s nation to prove their parent’s ways don’t work.
It is about a childish anger, and if you keep that in mind then everything a liberal does is predictable.
The working class are Trump’s base. I’m not a union member, but many on this site are. Sorry, I believe in the free market, which does NOT mean government handouts to large companies, particularly if those handouts are going to the heads of said companies. There’s a word for that, it begins with “F” and is being thrown around quite a bit these days.
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