It doesn’t need to be expensive… but believe me, it will.
America is broke by the ‘woke’
It is interesting that national origin in the Civil Rights Act could mean illegals can vote to some of the Woke people.
It isn’t a battle of the sexes. It’s that many of us quietly but strongly feel this drive to purge the English language (and the species itself?) of any possible reference to sex is not only unnecessary but is a silly idea at its base.
I have to side with Jim Hanson’s general view. Just because someone suddenly wakes, i.e. jumps on the latest “in thing” bandwagon, and twists their personal interpretation of a word’s meaning into a form they then claim to be not to their liking, doesn’t mean the entire English speaking world needs to immediately switch the language to accommodate their personal definition. The noisiest group isn’t always right.
“Notice to Aviators”…“NOTAVI”??? “NOTA”? “NOTAI”?
Russ Niles, you, and people like you are the only problem here.
Great, combat soaring airfares and plummeting quality of service with yet another expense; travel insurance. A raw deal for the consumer, all too common.
So is travel insurance sold by the airlines? Asking for a friend.
And yet another reason to fly General Aviation, as if we need any more.
Ridiculous to say the least. It gets more and more ridiculous every day. That’s what happens when “our representatives” are not on our side.
No one to blame but ourselves. If anyone ever bothers to investigate they find that the candidates with the most money don’t always win. The reality seems to be that in most cases the money follows the support rather than the other way round.
Of course, it’s easier to go back to blaming “them” and “money” so we can excuse ourselves for not getting any results. So we do.
I blame “them” because I understand “money” better than people. ??
Here’s a question: Why do the airlines all operate so similarly? Even SWA now looks a lot like “the majors”. I think if we understand the answer to that, the solutions, as strange as they may seem, will be more obvious.
Mark, did you mean a 13 “year old” girl was rebooked, the story said 13 months old - that’s a bit young? You later reference 13 year old minors.
Sure, but that’s not always possible. I can only afford a modest single-engine piston plane, and that won’t get me from the east coast to the west coast - at least, not in a reasonable amount of time, and it would cost more than flying commercially (not counting hotels along the way, it would also eat up about 2-3 months of my flying budget).
Your comment is quite true, but it also says how unrealistic airline pricing has been. Airline track record with multiple bankruptcies prove that.
Everyone hates airline management now, passengers, pilots, flight attendants and agents (perhaps baggage handlers too) and for good reason. Airline management has been atrocious lately. From schedule mismanagement to blanket mandates. Sure, management has received a lot of curve balls from weather to covid-19 but as they say, that’s why they make the big bucks. Deal with it. Unfortunately, management has not dealt with it and everyone suffers. Over millions of miles flown on commercial airlines, there is one correlation that is always true. When all the seats are filled, service sucks. When seats go empty, service improves. As long as the pilot shortage continues, flights will limited, seats will be filled and service will suck. Why the pilot shortage? One reason could be the number of pilots who have to stop flying. One pilots union is reporting a 300% increase in long term disability claims this year.
I wish I ran an airline. Making tons of cash when the going is good and asking the government for a bailout when shot hits the fan. As a CEO I could make millions regardless of what outcome may occur. The one exception being Delta, they’ve had their shit together for the last few years. Maybe I give Ed Bastian a pass.
not likely!
Many sources.
Ongoing, recently I remembered People Express, Tower Air, Laker, and others from long ago.
(Laker did last for years but a slump in the economy sunk it.)
Problem is with voters who do not think deeply about what matters in life, and do not listen to alternatives.
Airlines are hurting their future business, discouraging air travel and motivating pax to choose another. (E.G. if Air Canada mistreats they’ll choose Westjet in future.)