Deregulation push?

[PCL_128]

Ticket prices haven't dropped as much as you think they have. There has been a marginal drop since the days of regulation, but not the major decrease that everyone thinks.

 

[The Prussian]

fewer dirtball customers at the airport, etc.

I hear ya...darn those dirtball customers!!! They tend to leave peanut wrappers all over the place and what all...ruin a perfectly good day....

 

[clippyrip]

Maybe re-regulation would be a good thing. It is either that or eventually the passenger bill of rights type of thing and more regulation on a deregulated industry. These Skybus flash in the pan type start ups that offer low rates until they go BK and kill the legacies while they are around is no better an option. If it is not profitable to take Grandma to see the kids, and Grandma does not want to pay the fair that pays for the operation, then Grandma should use the phone. IMHO.

 

[GogglesPisano]

This would make us more socialist than Europe.

Why not start with healthcare first?

 

[captain dad]

... Rural and remote areas cannot depend on free enterprise to assure adequate service, and congressional hearings should result in a method of addressing the problem.

It's called the essential air service system. Great Lakes can only handle so much.

I smell the demand for Metroliners and 1900s.

Coming to a town in B.F. Montana soon.

 

[captain dad]

This would make us more socialist than Europe.

Why not start with healthcare first?

Ask a Canadian about universal health care. It's like a start up airline, looks good on paper, but in real life...not so much.

 

[gutshotdraw]

Ticket prices haven't dropped as much as you think they have. There has been a marginal drop since the days of regulation, but not the major decrease that everyone thinks.

Are you high? In 1977-1981, I airlined four times a year to boarding school from Tucson to Chicago (in other words, prior to and during de-regulation). Those tickets were more than $500 each round-trip. I can do the same trip tomorrow for $360. After 31 YEARS of inflation! I was never great at math but that is a HUGE difference in price.

Economies are not static models. They are constantly evolving. De-regulation was one of the DRIVERS of economic growth through the late 80's and the 90's. I know I would not have a job flying airplanes and I doubt many of you would have jobs flying airplanes if it were not for de-regulation. De-regulation certainly hasn't been perfect but government control of the price or supply of ANY product, commodity, or service NEVER works out well for the consumer or the economy in the long run.

 

[captain dad]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: imp:

 

[PCL_128]

Are you high? In 1977-1981, I airlined four times a year to boarding school from Tucson to Chicago (in other words, prior to and during de-regulation). Those tickets were more than $500 each round-trip. I can do the same trip tomorrow for $360. After 31 YEARS of inflation! I was never great at math but that is a HUGE difference in price.

You're looking at a single example and drawing huge conclusions from it. Ridiculous. The data is out there, corrected for inflation, if you want to go look for it. Fares have not come down that much. The consumer has been screwed.

Economies are not static models. They are constantly evolving. De-regulation was one of the DRIVERS of economic growth through the late 80's and the 90's. I know I would not have a job flying airplanes and I doubt many of you would have jobs flying airplanes if it were not for de-regulation. De-regulation certainly hasn't been perfect but government control of the price or supply of ANY product, commodity, or service NEVER works out well for the consumer or the economy in the long run.

Sounds like something the Shrub would say. We know how well his ideas have worked out.

 

[PCL_128]

This would make us more socialist than Europe.

Why not start with healthcare first?

Sometimes I think 99% of the country doesn't know what the definition of socialism is. You do realize that many countries in Europe don't just regulate their airlines, they actually own them, right? Regulation is not socialism.