<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ken in Phx:
Talk about misguided anger. Bobby have a bran muffin and stay off that piney bench, the splinters are making you grumpy. Bob you dont have anywhere else to go. Air travel is a monopoly, cracking the ranks is nerly impossible. Read herb kellehers book about SW Air. Even if you send all you business to SW, you cant travel abroad. What are you going to do, drive there ? LOL </font>
Actually I DO have someplace to go, and YES I'm GRUMPY! The last part in NOT news, maybe it's my hemmoroids from all those US Turbo Props! those seats are not Cockroach friendly!
I have been steadily researching my business travel patterns and I have found that exactly 100% of my business trips could have been flown on a combination of discount carriers not named SWA. If US ultimately fails, the combination of Midwest, ATA and Spirit will cover every single trip I made in 3 years of flying.
Since I haven't done any overseas flying for business or pleasure I'll cross that bridge later.
As for the monoply aspects of the business and the "you can't beat'em" attitude espoused here, I would remind you that 56 people banded together and changed the course of the world forever when they signed the Declaration of Independence.
I don't know if the Cockroaches and DL group will have any lasting impact on the industry. But I do know that standing and fighting the unbridled arrogance of an industry run amok feels mighty good to me. Maybe I am tilting at windmills, but gosh darn it I REFUSE to be one of the sheeple ever again. To much has happened to me in my personal non FT/FF life to ever sit by and watch things go by.
"It is better to die on your feet, then live on your knees"