<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by clubercp:
The real message would be received by the airlines if we all stop flying. But how can we realistically do that? I'm afraid our messages and calls have no meat. Maybe we can organize some type of short term boycott to get attantion. If all the big boys follow suit and change their rules, which airlines will be left to go to?</font>
Thanks for the giving voice to commonsense, clubercp.
Someone reading these boards over the past week would conclude that we were still living in '82 -- and people could still take their business to Braniff, or Pan Am, or Eastern, etc.
"Which airlines will be left to go to?" is the most sensible question posted in a while. On the CO, DL, AA and UA boards, you can read endless squawks and threats from FTrs declaring that they'll 'divorce' their airline if it doesn't restore XYZ amenity or if it dares to implement ABC rule change.
"I hate HoKeY, I'm going to UA."
"Use it or lose it is awful, I'm jumping to DL"
"SGB is an abomination, I'm jumping to CO."
But at the end of the day, it's sounding like the passenger who cried wolf.
Facts: AA and CO are cutting schedules, CO is hyping 'no waivers, no favors,' UA is tightening all the screws it can find, USAir is closing in fast on 'beyond hope.'
Time for a reality intervention: Southwest and JetBlue simply don't have enough planes to accommodate all the people threatening to switch to them.