Originally Posted by yandosan (Post 21021376)

Flying is too cheap. It's turned American flights into cattle-class headache
excursions.
One should not in 2013 be able to fly from LA to NYC and back for $320.
That's the same price it was in 1988--I remember-- that's the first time
I made the trip.
$600 is a reasonable price for a trip across the continent, and back.
Flight attendants are upset and uncooperative, pilots too, airport staff, all underpaid. What do you expect when you pay them peanuts?
Everything else has gone up in price (gas quadrupled) so flights need to as well.
We can't have our cake (ultra cheap fares) and eat it (good service and leg room) too.

Originally Posted by Spiff (Post 21021827)

I disagree completely with your statements.

Supply and demand sets the prices.

Prevailing wages are what the market will bear. Any airline employee who feels he/she is underpaid should feel free to seek employment elsewhere. Peanuts? This a tired, worn cliche.

Originally Posted by skylady (Post 21048736)

Pilots getting $163 dollars an hour, and FAs getting $47 at the top of the pay scale are doing pretty well. It;s the work rules that have us by the cojones. The cuts are in the insurance and flying thresholds

Originally Posted by skylady (Post 21048736)

Pilots getting $163 dollars an hour, and FAs getting $47 at the top of the pay scale are doing pretty well. It;s the work rules that have us by the cojones. The cuts are in the insurance and flying thresholds

Originally Posted by skylady (Post 21048763)

Just think, Spifff=, alll those new spiffy guys and gals are all shapes and sizes and ages as well

:cool:

Originally Posted by yandosan (Post 21022717)

Nice rant but how exactly would you change things?

It wasn't a rant; it was a proposal to increase fares in order to
enhance services related to flying. Wasn't that obvious?