I'm saying that airlines tend to be fairly uniform in the area of safety. If one had 50% more crashes, that would be noticed. The differences are not big enough to undermine the notion that air travel is a commodity and hence competition is primarily on price.
In the case of physicians, safety might also be substantially similar (and ought to be) between physicians of similar disciplines. Airline pilots, on the other hand, don't sit down and help you decide if you need to go to NYC or not. They don't decide whether it would be better to have a layover in Minneapolis or Houston. Etc, etc. The education and professionalism of airline pilots is very important. It is completely and utterly different from the relationship a patient has with a doctor, however, and therefore entirely irrelevant. Judah On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Judah wrote: >> All the airlines are fairly similar in those regards. A knee surgery, >> on the other hand, is something where the training, talent, experience >> and judgment of the physician comes into significant play. > > BTW - are you saying that Sully, the pilot that landed the A320 in > Hudson, DOESN'T have training, talent, experience, and judgment OR are > you saying that HE DOES and that his training, talent, experience, and > judgment is equal or exceeded by all other pilots thus those pilots > are all a commodity? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299735 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
