Legislation to Stop Delays & Other Things
Aug 8, 2000 | 6:53 am
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Legislation to Stop Delays & Other Things
A word to the weary who fly a lot:
A report came out in the news today that Congress is trying to end delays.
In another related story, UNITED today said they are cancelling MORE flights as a result of their delicate labor relations from the impending merger to US AIR.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles...sp?special=msn
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/00080...-cancellations
A report came out in the news today that Congress is trying to end delays.
In another related story, UNITED today said they are cancelling MORE flights as a result of their delicate labor relations from the impending merger to US AIR.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles...sp?special=msn
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/00080...-cancellations
Aug 8, 2000 | 8:56 am
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Yeah, and next they will try to legislate out world hunger. 
Aug 8, 2000 | 10:13 am
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Toner's Law of Government:
Problems increase geometrically in proportion to the legislation designed to "cure" them.
If this does not clearly demonstrate to the DOJ why several mega-carriers are not a good thing, I don't know what will.
Imagine if the UA problems included US?!
When 1 carrier has problems, the other carriers can pick up some slack (granted, with 80% load factors, it's not all that easy). When there are only 2 or 3 mega-carriers and 1 goes down, take your current problem and double/triple it!
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
Problems increase geometrically in proportion to the legislation designed to "cure" them.
If this does not clearly demonstrate to the DOJ why several mega-carriers are not a good thing, I don't know what will.
Imagine if the UA problems included US?!
When 1 carrier has problems, the other carriers can pick up some slack (granted, with 80% load factors, it's not all that easy). When there are only 2 or 3 mega-carriers and 1 goes down, take your current problem and double/triple it!
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."