Alfred Kahn dead at 93 years of age

[HA25]

Be sure to tell all your friends to watch the next "Frontline" on PBS... get some more insight into the "benefits" of the deregulation act on 1978...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/

 

[slaquer5]

all while turning the airline pilot from a "god" and near superstar, better paid than all but the best paid doctors and lawyers to just another "joe average"... bravo indeed..

Actually a Captain of a major back in the 60s made more than a starting quarterback w/ the NFL.

 

[HA25]

Actually a Captain of a major back in the 60s made more than a starting quarterback w/ the NFL.

Yep.

....it was as one old retired PanAm 747 captain told me "A Cadillac a month"

Today's typical Caddy is north of $60K... so do the math.

 

[RT8VA]

If you look it up Joe Montana made 70k his rookie year as a number one draft pick out of Notre Dame. Hard to believe how those salaries have rocketed up.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

He made it so Joe average and his family can afford to get on a plane and visit grandma. God speed to the man,he has done a lot of good.

Oh yeah.....Sure!! Never hate on a person but whizzing on his grave may be in order.....

Empty the bus terminals and put em on SWA......Listen to yourself!!! A lot of good?.....Lost pensions, crap wages, furloughs, ********************bag startups.....all for Joe Average!!

Oh yeah....and the race to the bottom.....funny how SWA is now the turd on top!! SUPER!!!!

 

[slaquer5]

Oh yeah.....Sure!! Never hate on a person but whizzing on his grave may be in order.....

Empty the bus terminals and put em on SWA......Listen to yourself!!! A lot of good?.....Lost pensions, crap wages, furloughs, ********************bag startups.....all for Joe Average!!

Oh yeah....and the race to the bottom.....funny how SWA is now the turd on top!! SUPER!!!!

Seek help. You get more and more bitter ever day. Please take your meds bitter old man .

 

[Caveman]

Deregulation was 32 years ago. Unless you're over 50 you probably weren't even driving when this law was enacted and half the current regional pilots weren't even born yet. The oldest airline pilot still flying was only 30 at the time. That means all but a handful of current airline pilots entered the business AFTER deregulation. It was a game changer for the former generation of airline pilots, but it's just normal business for our generation and you knew, or should have known, what you were getting into. Stop lamenting the good old days when you didn't actually live it. It's ancient history. Move on already.

 

[Flopgut]

Why applaud this guy?! Why, instead of cheap air fares, was something like feeding the hungry or defeating cancer not pursued with the same enthusiasm?

 

[HalinTexas]

Be sure to tell all your friends to watch the next "Frontline" on PBS... get some more insight into the "benefits" of the deregulation act on 1978...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/

This crash had no direct correlation to deregulation. Deregulation was not about safety or the stupidity of pilots. This crash was about incompetence, and unprofessionalism among several parties. Quit making excuses for them.

 

[HalinTexas]

Actually a Captain of a major back in the 60s made more than a starting quarterback w/ the NFL.

And the '60s era NFL quarterback probably didn't fly 1st class on his own dime.

There were no quick upgrades back then, either.

I submit that all professional athletes were then, and are now, overpaid. Pilots now are just suckers. We bought into the lies of the aviation schools and aviation press. Myself included.

 

[HalinTexas]

I disagree, perhaps 30% of us would not be airline pilots, but 100% of those that did would have better paying, more stable jobs without it.

Perhaps not. No guarantees.

There wouldn't be any 5 year upgrades. If you were lucky enough, or well connected enough, you might be able to get a job flying airplanes for a living.

The public most likely would not tolerate subsidizing an entire industry whose highest paid employees are paid more than the president, adjusted for inflation.

 

[HalinTexas]

An unintended consequence is the "mass transitization" of airline travel. It is a "bus in the sky." Worse, the public has a sense of entitlement in regards to air travel.

 

[HA25]

Why applaud this guy?! Why, instead of cheap air fares, was something like feeding the hungry or defeating cancer not pursued with the same enthusiasm?

VERY well said...

 

[tomgoodman]

Another subsidized industry

The public most likely would not tolerate subsidizing an entire industry whose highest paid employees are paid more than the president, adjusted for inflation.

Babe Ruth was once asked how he felt about being paid more than the President. The Bambino responded: "I had a better year than he did."

 

[gutshotdraw]

75% of us would not have airline jobs without deregulation. Certainly not as sweet as regulation. I think we deserve more for sure. But it is the definition of a Catch 22.

Exactamundo