Airlines losing money, How could they not???

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Originally Posted by Jamo

Yup...low prices allow the great unwashed to fly. That's what Greyhound is for.

Used to enjoy flying...better schedules from areas that needed it (AirCal and PSA alternating every half hour here in California), good looking folks serving you instead of unionized *****y folks, fewer kids crying, fewer third worlders with five generations of family stuffing the overheads with kim chi pots, etc.

Same thing has happened to Vegas...but they are at least turning away from the Wally World persona for their properties of late.

JMHO as a business traveler, and somewhat in jest.

So Ron, my friend, are you advocating a return to Federal regulation of the industry so we can return to the days you are waxing so poetic about above?

It was very nice for the airline industry in those "halycon," pampered passenger, regulated days. Everyone was guaranteed a profit, and the government decided who flew where, how often, how much passengers were charged, how much employees got paid, etc. If there was an employee strike, there was a legal mutual aid pact among the airlines, and the ones not on strike were allowed to assess a surcharge in order to pay the struck airline for lost revenue.

Ah, the good old days . . . Given the way things are going, perhaps we shall see a return to that, because there will be no other choice except driving.

Of course, this is also posted "somewhat in jest," but you get what you pay for in a free-enterprise system, and its all a function of supply and demand.