Posted on 06/16/2008 6:19:08 AM PDT by chessplayer
I think we could end up seeing down the road one national airline, just like what they have in other countries.
You should see this.
Libs should be elated by this, considering they believe airplanes contribute to global warming, destroy the ozone, etc.
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At least the celebs will still have their private airplanes. I mean there has to be a silver lining here, right? Writing with sarcasm on high...
Hell of a way to run a railroad.
Or an airport terminal, either.
I suppose we are fortunate, as yet, not to be required to show an internal passport, with a visa to make a temporary visit to the destination in another part of United States. There is a continuing reason to keep our personal transportation, i.e., automobiles, which still permit embarking upon a journey without too much bureaucracy involved, and certainly without an intrusive inspection that serves no useful purpose other than to make travels continually difficult for people who have no intention of making trouble, but absolutely miss the real perpetrators.
I probably will not take an airplane anywhere again in my lifetime.
uh...
that’s too simple!
whining and going out of business are more fun.
I second that.
I question this. Physical disruption(s) can be countered with force. The disruption they threaten is financial. Though the numbers in these groups -- the Greens, Gays, Poverty-Pimps, etc.-- are minute, they are focused like a lazar, while the rest of us are a scatter gun.
Whining and lobbying for a Federal bailout is more profitable.
I’ve never been on a plane and don’t forsee a time when I’ll need to be on one.
If they are precluded from discussion pricing by law, they will have to do it by merging. Some way has to be found to raise prices.
Unless and until our elected officials get off the backs of “Big Oil” and turn them lose to find and produce oil in this country for use within this country, matters will only get worse.
You really need to try it once just to see how bad it is.
Hopefully another form of mass transit like railroads will be able to take up some of the slack, at least on domestic runs.
This is why some airlines like Continental and United are grounding their 737-300's. United is getting rid of all their 737's, because all their newer planes for that size and mission are A320's and A319's. Continental is keeping its Next Generation 737's, the 700, 800, 900, and 900ER which they bought instead of switching to the Airbus A320 series.
Coal to Oil is approved for the C-17 and the F-15 and F-16 if I am not mistaken.
To support our airpower and land transportation via the trucking industries, an immediate effort to get the trucking and airline industry and our air-power on this fuel source should be done, 100% domestic sourced.
It would probably clean out the short speculators big time and the price would drop in half so fast it would make your head spin.
But hey, nobody listens to me anyhow....
I am acquainted with a guy who works for the TSA. He is the husband of a friend of my wife’s. The guy apparently has some wires crossed in his brain or something, really, I kid you not. He puts words together to make sentences that just make no sense, and in your head you are going, “WTF!!?” — Like Yogi Berra, but without any wisdom or common sense. And, he is all thumbs. He literally hardly knows which end of a screwdriver to use. His wife won’t let him near tools, for fear of what will happen. And they give this guy a friggin’ probe ...
So there you go ... this is one of the guys on the front line at our airports, making you safer, ferreting out terrorists.
Feel safer now??
Thought so ...
“Hopefully another form of mass transit like railroads will be able to take up some of the slack, at least on domestic runs.”
And fortunately we have finely-tuned government-supported machine in Amtrak just waiting to seize the opportunity.....
After a suitable wait, line them up and, one at a time, let them walk out and get in your car. Make sure at least one has a cranky, crying kid. After your car is full, with one rear seat left for you, tell the rest of your friends they will have to go back to the living room and wait for another car tonight.
Now, get in the car, and have the persons in the front seat slide them as far back as possible and recline them, so your knees are crushed. Try and enjoy the ridiculous gift catalogs thoughtfully crushed by your knees.
Now ride like this for hours. Oh, you forgot to put your bag in the trunk? Too bad. At least you'll get half a Coke and some peanuts, right? Not anymore.
Thank you for flying SimulAir.
I parked my car on the US side of the border and took a taxi to the airport.
Checked through security and on to the counter within 3 to 5 minutes with no problems.
Saved over $243 dollars by going across and flying Mexicana.
BTW, the security folks were very courteous not like the TSA dummies who have let power go to their heads.
Some of the insane and inane tricks these folks are doing is right out of the book of Keystone Kops.
Do I feel any safer because these guys abuse the inspection process,shut down the airport for any reason and are rude to the passengers, not really.
I hadn't heard that British Airways or Korean Air were in trouble....I thought we were talking about domestic dinosaur airlines run into the ground by poor management.
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