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Thanks, Taxpayers, for My Subsidized Ticket on an Airplane Gutted to Meet Stupid Regulations
Thank you, taxpayers, for subsidizing our jaunt as part of the often (and justly) criticized Essential Air Service program. And the flight was conducted on a BE-1900 that had had ten seats ripped out. (reason.com) さらに...
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On the bright side, they decided to keep the seats over the CG...
My favorite part about all this is the continued use of the word "RIP"... the airline didn't have maintenance personnel loosen the bolts with wrenches and take the seats out of the aircraft. Oh no, nothing so mundane and ordinary as that! Those seats were RIPPED out!
They had some WWF gorillas come in and RIP the seats out, shearing the bolts and shredding the upholstery in the process. Now, the passengers who board the plane to sit in the remaining seats have to step around gaping holes in the floorboards where the other seats were RIPPED out. There are jagged cavities in the wall panels (probably with live wires dangerously exposed) where the armrests used to be, before they were RIPPED out.
It's all so violent, and seamy, and out of control! RIPPING seats out! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!
They had some WWF gorillas come in and RIP the seats out, shearing the bolts and shredding the upholstery in the process. Now, the passengers who board the plane to sit in the remaining seats have to step around gaping holes in the floorboards where the other seats were RIPPED out. There are jagged cavities in the wall panels (probably with live wires dangerously exposed) where the armrests used to be, before they were RIPPED out.
It's all so violent, and seamy, and out of control! RIPPING seats out! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Yeah the verbiage is a little over the top. Reminds me of the old DAK Catalog... It's a War! And Your Home Is The Battleground!
I'm a little troubled by the article, though. The Essential Air Service stuff, I think it's clear has been a boondoggle and a big waste of money. The 9-passenger 1900 thing, I mean, I want the pilots to be safe of course, and I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the changes in the new rules, so I don't know if they're helpful or not. I can see how having less experienced pilots fly with fewer passengers puts fewer people at risk, but flying the same aircraft with fewer seats than it is made for seems perverse. And it didn't look like the pax got one inch of extra legroom.
I'm a little troubled by the article, though. The Essential Air Service stuff, I think it's clear has been a boondoggle and a big waste of money. The 9-passenger 1900 thing, I mean, I want the pilots to be safe of course, and I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the changes in the new rules, so I don't know if they're helpful or not. I can see how having less experienced pilots fly with fewer passengers puts fewer people at risk, but flying the same aircraft with fewer seats than it is made for seems perverse. And it didn't look like the pax got one inch of extra legroom.
The pax probably didn't get any additional legroom.
As far as the hours thing, it just means they are gonna have to get total hours somewhere else rather than with a 121 carrier. Personal opinion, they won't be a bit more experienced, at least in AC type, when they come to work for a 121 carrier than they would have been if they had come to the airline with fewer total hours. If they manage 1500 hours and an ATP in a 182 and have never seen the inside of a big iron cockpit, I can't see where that is going to help much.
As far as the hours thing, it just means they are gonna have to get total hours somewhere else rather than with a 121 carrier. Personal opinion, they won't be a bit more experienced, at least in AC type, when they come to work for a 121 carrier than they would have been if they had come to the airline with fewer total hours. If they manage 1500 hours and an ATP in a 182 and have never seen the inside of a big iron cockpit, I can't see where that is going to help much.
Ridiculous government regs at work wasting your tax dollars.
This is more of a party line anti-government diatribe than anything else. I mean, what's the point?
The Essential Air Service program is so horrible, but I rode it anyway. I could have used my Randian superskillz to go to the big airport, but I settled on the taxpayer subsidized regional airline which wouldn't exist if the program didn't exist, which would in turn limit my choices. It's so terrible, and they stopped expanding it after 2010. Isn't that awful?
...What?
This guy gets paid to write about how bad the government is. Right. I'm familiar with Reason.com. But what point is being made here? I learned nothing by reading this article, except that the author is a libertarian. He wants it both ways, it seems, and in the end he doesn't convince me of much at all. No one forced him to rattle around in this damned thing, this plane with seats ripped (!) out of it. Did he do it just so that he could complain to his fellow ideologues on their club website?
And, if we can be grown ups for a second, $2,094,235 is nothing in terms of the federal budget. One smart bomb costs more than that, and all it does is blow up.
The Essential Air Service program is so horrible, but I rode it anyway. I could have used my Randian superskillz to go to the big airport, but I settled on the taxpayer subsidized regional airline which wouldn't exist if the program didn't exist, which would in turn limit my choices. It's so terrible, and they stopped expanding it after 2010. Isn't that awful?
...What?
This guy gets paid to write about how bad the government is. Right. I'm familiar with Reason.com. But what point is being made here? I learned nothing by reading this article, except that the author is a libertarian. He wants it both ways, it seems, and in the end he doesn't convince me of much at all. No one forced him to rattle around in this damned thing, this plane with seats ripped (!) out of it. Did he do it just so that he could complain to his fellow ideologues on their club website?
And, if we can be grown ups for a second, $2,094,235 is nothing in terms of the federal budget. One smart bomb costs more than that, and all it does is blow up.
