On 1/3/07, Diane Lochner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
as an industry, air transport (people, cargo, etc) is fascinating for a lot of reasons. there's something for everyone...people who just like to travel and see the world or who love flying (ie. flightcrew) lawyers (aviation/transport law, as well as labor) math people and MBAs (pricing, route planning, scheduling, finance, investors, etc) training, mechanics, or just people who love being around airports and airplanes. You can take any number of career fields and tie them somehow to aviation. Here's a link about the CNBC program: http://www.aweekinthelife.cnbc.com/main.html I thought one of the more interesting facts was that one flight on one of the routes they profiled only resulted in a net profit of $200. (I think it was the wide-body New York-Los Angeles flight). And they did a good job at describing pricing, which is as much art as science, to help explain the widely varying airfares passengers on any given flight pay.
I did catch that CNBC program - Tivo got it for me sometime over the past week or two. It was pretty interesting (2 hours long) Another show that is interesting is 'Airline' that is on AE. But that is almost all from the gate personnel point of view and there's only so many times that you can see people get disallowed boarding because they got too drunk in the airport bar. An interesting thing about the CNBC program is *every* time they showed labor doing something (maintenance, etc), they were either wearing a TWU shirt or key-strap. There was a lot of material in there about labor-management conflicts. As for me, I got into air transport because every 2 years until I was 12 years old, I moved countries. So I was around them from a very young age.
