On 1/20/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > DV wrote: > > These guys knew for years things needed to change, but still > > were like "give us a bunch of loot, cause of 9/11". Bah. > >
.... Businesses have finally wised up to that and now airlines are having > to take a more a-customer-is-a-customer approach that Southwest has > had for 30 years. Many of the majors just couldn't turn their > operations from that golden handcuff until it cut their hand off. The thing I take issue with is that they knew they were running in the red for years. I keep meaning to read that book "Nuts" or some such, written by the dude who built up Southwest. The 'no' part of my answer is that the US government forces the > airlines to pay for airport security. That's ridiculous in my > opinion, especially when the gov't decides to up security costs by > 1000%. Ha! That's genius! Give 'em a bunch of money, and then turn around and take it back via taxes. Sorta like the opposite that's happened with the tax cuts (we got money via tax rebates, but lost more in the long run (IMO)). =P I remember them standing up there in front of congress, all, hey, we didn't see disaster coming! We're all, like innocent and whatnot. Screwing their employees at the same time. I mean, they deserve a golf clap. [/me golf claps] Airlines should focus on getting people from 'A' to 'B' as cheaply as > possible and the government should focus on keeping the embarkation > points secure. I keep thinking about the trains in Atlas Shrugged. Heh. Don't get me wrong tho, socialism doesn't have to be bad. =] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225285 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
