U.S. airlines and the Department of Transportation may soon have to consider consolidating service to dozens of cities around the country in a bid to help carriers cut losses, several airline industry executives told CNBC. (www.cnbc.com) さらに...
By all means, bring back the CAB...they can look at routes, frequency, pricing, luggage fees, change of ticket fees, move up from 1600 to 1400 departure time fees, the building needs new carpeting fees, etc.
I mean Fuel is at an all time low.. That must be helping. I’m waiting for cost of food to come down as we were all told it was due to fuel for so damn long. Right now in my neck of the woods in Ontario it’s 67.9c / L.. lower than when I pumped gas at 18 y/o. Crazy ( that’s still... 2.57US/Gal)
I saw $1.89 / gallon here in MA last week. We're higher than the rest of the country, thanks to the thieving .... people (I'll keep things family friendly here) ... on Beacon Hill writing all these tax increases.
Do the airlines still have to fly a minimum number of flights to keep their "slots" at constrained airports? That rule resulted in them flying basically empty airplanes. I thought FAA was going to give them some relief on that.
Time to end Reagan era deregulation of the airlines and dynamic pricing for seats. Preregulation, all seats in each class of service had the same value, whether the seat was purchased 6 months before the flight or bought the day of travel.
This probably would thin the number of people flying. This would lead to a decrease in the flight frequencies between city pairs and would offer relief to our over burdened (antiquated) ATC network. In the regulated days long ago, I don't recall having near the flight delays and cancelations that haunt flyers today.
Deregulation is the only reason you can fly to Denver for $50. You start having the government regulate airfare's and air travel is going to get a hell of a lot more expensive again.
Also what makes you believe demand will be decreased? Do you think all the people are going to jump on our non-existent railroads or get on a greyhound bus and spend 2 days traveling across the country?
I suspect that people would simply stop traveling beyond their economic means. Which means vacationing closer to home; traveling by car. Business travel would be curtailed somewhat, but not to the degree of leisure travel. So yeah...demand would decline
Alfred Kahn who was the architect of airline deregulation under Carter donated a urinal to the local nonprofit theater here in Ithaca. I have suggested that the airport be named for him but the idea hasn't gotten any traction.
I was bored one day, and looked at the planes flying around DTW. There were 4 flights from the same city to DTW within less than a half hour of each other on 3 different airlines.
Why?
Why would there need to be that many flights essentially at the same time. This country has needed better public transportation since like forever.
There is no doubt that deregulation was a bad thing, but it allowed the ruling class to extort more money from the airlines, and allowed the management teams of the airlines to extort more money from their companies. Like I've said, the parasite class is killing the world, for profit!
But anyway... How many will die from this mismanaged mess in America today? 700? 1,000?
What's worse is when it's the same airline! United flew 6 flights from ORD-LAX yesterday, all virtually empty B757's and B737's. A complete waste of both jet fuel and ATC resources.