On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: > You've also seen a net stripping of services on flights which I think > is a negative. Not to mention a general deterioration in service. > Also most of these smaller airlines had and have real quality issues. > Look at it today. Overcrowded flights were the norm Also the fare > reduction is not evenly distributed. Fares along high traffic routes > tend to be higher.
Of course. But the services and the less crowded flights weren't worth the $100 billion to real people. The fact that the flights got more crowded shows that airfares became affordable to a much larger segment of the population. I don't think you judge the worth of a social policy by its effect on the elites. If you do, ending slavery was a really bad idea. > > I'd have to check but I think we actually have less airlines now. > Also it seems like the industry is slowly dying since they did de-reg. We have more airlines but they are dying. This is not a bad thing considering how inefficient and harmful to the climate air travel is. Still the death of the airlines has everything to do with the price of jet fuel and the shitty economy. I doubt that you can give deregulation the credit. -- No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. -Turkish proverb _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
