Maybe a reson to vote Dem.

[belchfire]

Subsidies come into effect in only a tiny portion of the markets. You need to research the CAB and regulation prior to 1978. Subsidies weren't common. What was common was airlines charging enough to cover their costs. Imagine that.

Well, that is part of the story. The rest of the story is that they were very well paid for hauling the mail out of Marion, Il and Baker OR and were protected on the routes-no AirTrans or SWAs allowed to apply free market forces.

So, would you propose that the top heavy outfits like United, Delta, NWA be protected again to the detriment of outfits that have proven that they can make it on their own? The alternative is to let robber barons like Lorenzo and crooks like Don Carty rip off assets and run away with 63 million dollar severance packages and allow them to quietly die under the weight of VP's, CEO's and Boards of Directors that have no vested interest in the companies they control.

Face it, they've already raped the pension plans-there isn't anything left but a hollow shell of former glory over a rotten, putrid core of the Legacy carriers.

The laws of the land allowed them to become that way...the same kind of elitists running the companies as running the government. It's a daisy chain of anal-oral interface and greed of the likes we haven't seen since Roman Empire.

And people here think the government should (or even could) do something constructive...

 

[Soverytired]

At $135+/barrel sustained oil prices, there's going to be a significant draw down in air travel and cities served no matter if it's regulated or not.

There is simply no way the American taxpayer will subsidize the current levels of air service available to the US public. It would break the bank.

And oil is likely to continue to climb MUCH higher.