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Old Jun 26, 2017 | 9:45 pm
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rucksack
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Originally Posted by Keith2004
The average consumer does not buy a plane ticket based on politics or emotion strictly price.

If the general (non elite, non av-geek) public could really be driven to outrage enough to boycott an airline United would have ceased operations after the Dao incident

I don't knock delta for taking a stand on this and many other issues they do, I just don't think any of the political Activism US3 is showing will sway consumers in a material way.
See my post above, but I don't think they're trying to sway readers as consumers. I think they're trying to sway readers as constituents and policy makers. How well do you think it plays if a politician is pro-killing 1,500 jobs per route lost?
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