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Air Travel Complaint? Here's How An Airline CEO Might Reply
Have you ever had the pleasure of sitting next to an airline CEO on a flight? I have. When they have to get somewhere, they actually fly on their own airline (in first class, of course, if their airline has it). I've only had the briefest of conversations. Like the time I sat next to David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue. He wasn't much interested in talking to me, which was fine I guess. (www.huffingtonpost.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Honestly, this is what I wish every airline CEO would come out and say. Almost what I've been telling people who complain to me for some time now. Will have to bookmark this for future reference.
Everybody wants pre deregulation service at post deregulation prices
That is a fact and a dream Sir!!!
Yeah, and that is one dream that will not change because the facts just won't allow it. Even if fuel prices went to half, the airlines would be accused of being robber barons for not passing it along. They might be able to give back some to the employess who have sacrificed, but a big part would need to go the the bank just to stay afloat.
Funny you mention "robber barons" and "fuel prices" in the same paragraph! LOL
you can pick your own poison out of that.lol
Probably 90% of Americans would agree that the price of fuel is highway robbery. I am in the 90.
Just like trucking, it reaks of too much capacity.
Very true. If somebody does manage to slip in a halfway compensatory rate between 2 points, somebody will come along and cut it just for the sake of cutting it. Like a bunch of kids with the "I WANT THAT"
And to boot, everybody has demonized Anderson for cutting capacity, but they forget that is basically what he said he was going to do when he took over,"My planes will run full" or something to that effect. That said, he is making a little bit of money and has new airplanes on order and a fair amount of labor peace, so he is doing something right.
Think about what SWAs success was attributed to in the 90's.... fleet standardization. Everyone wanted to kiss Herb's ass for coming up with a point to point business model with fleet standardization. The big carriers cant do this. Look at AAL. They had a mostly American made fleet for the longest time (less the Fokkers). Then they wanted to expand their European route network, but strangely enough, nobody (in the present-day EU) wanted to sell any gate space or routes. Why? Because their little spec of a country builds widgets for EADS (Airbus) and American didnt have any of those. Finally realizing they were never going to be a truly global airline without this European route network, AAL threw in the towel and put some A300s in the line-up. Next thing you know, AAL speaks 30 different languages.
And that my friends is why every major carrier have/had both Boeing and Airbus models in the stables. You wanna fly to Europe? Better go get you some A-3-somethings first.
Can you imagine what Boeing could do if they had several dozen countries' goverments pulling for/funding them?
And that my friends is why every major carrier have/had both Boeing and Airbus models in the stables. You wanna fly to Europe? Better go get you some A-3-somethings first.
Can you imagine what Boeing could do if they had several dozen countries' goverments pulling for/funding them?