Brookings for foreign carriers on domestic routes

[peanutbutter]

This guy from Brookings suggests foreign carriers on domestic routes and lower pay for cheaper airfares and better service and get this, to create jobs?

http://www.brookings.edu/research/o...ional-airline-competition-winston#lightboxDiv

 

[AceCrackshot]

And fixes the "pilot shortage!" Double win!

 

[C-150ETOPS]

Didn't know Brookings had 12 year olds doing Junior Achievement White Papers on airline networks on it's staff.

 

[Flopgut]

Yeah, the world's leading airlines would love to get in on the lucrative Sarasota to Cincinnati market...

 

[doh]

Yeah, the world's leading airlines would love to get in on the lucrative Sarasota to Cincinnati market...

And there is the first union tended consequence. Foreign carriers would cherry pick, thus ending the overall resources to continue serving thin routes...and causing economic disaster in a huge part of the country who no longer have any air service. Net job losses.

 

[General Lee]

And Congress would not allow it. It's called lobbyists. Congressmen and Senators from airline hub States would get enough grief and they would stall it indefinitely. That's how this country works.. And the foreign carriers have a larger "shortage" of pilots. Doubtful. But if Air Montenegro wants to pay me $1 million per year to fly LAS to BUF and back, I guess I'll have to think about it...


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[HalinTexas]

A solution looking for a problem.

 

[BobbyBiplane]

And these are the liberals ...

The Brookings Institution is an American liberal think tank based in Washington, D.C.,[2] in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.[3][4] Wiki

 

[Lear70]

You know, not everyone needs to fly to the grandkids for the holidays. How about you drive or take Greyhound if you can't afford an airplane ticket?

One of the main problems in this country is entitlement. When we were growing up, most of us were instilled with the the simple truth that some things don't come cheap, and if you want them, you're going to have to work hard for it, and some things you're just not going to have if you take certain career paths.

But for some reason, the people in this country feel ENTITLED to those things, especially those in the upcoming generation. it's just a GIVEN that airplane tickets should ALWAYS be cheap and accessible when, in fact, it's EXPENSIVE to produce an airline seat. New planes get more expensive. Fuel goes up in cost. Everything does. Period. The end.

But God forbid they actually have to take the bus, take their car and drive for a day or two, or *GASP* not go this year and save and go next year.

People who write articles like this are so incredibly naive to the realities of their proposals and how they impact things with the ripple effects as Doh mentioned. The problem is people actually listen to things like this and say "Wow, what a great idea!" Not realizing that as soon as that competition eliminates other competitors, they'll raise THEIR prices, too, and they'll be right back where they started - rising ticket prices to account for the cost of doing business.

You have to wonder how people who can get published can be this inanely stupid.

 

[jonjuan]

And everyones favorite lib, chuck shumer, panders to the publics outcry of "unfair" ticket prices. Amazing that any pilot would vote for this guy.


http://observer.com/2010/01/schumer-worried-jetblue-will-take-off/

"On September 16, 1999, Mr. Schumer hosted a press conference to announce 75 slots for the new airline–the most ever granted. “JetBlue is the perfect airline to break the monopoly power which other airlines used as ransom to hold upstate’s economy hostage,” he said. With that foothold, the airline got off the ground, grew, and expanded, and Mr. Schumer often flew commercial on the airline, as he criss-crossed the state and cemented his Senate seat."