Newest Open Skies Proposal - NAFTA style

[SNOWBUM]

we can still get it rigth with some minor changes

 

[Draginass]

Small countries are salivating for the opportunity to come into the US market. Flags of convenience (like tramp steam freighter) and cheap crews and marginal aircraft. The FAA can't even monitor US industry effectively, much less junk flying in from overseas. Good airlines from small EU countries can expand like crazy, way outside their proportional market share.

Just like they want to do with Immigration Reform, the Dems and Reps will say the the oversight will be tight, but we all know that's a laughable lie and the real story will be it becomes a virtually unregulated free-for-all.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

times are ripe for the revolution of the proletarians....


or maybe not, we are pilots,we are proletarians and most don't know it. most of us ( not me) vote republican because "we all know" is more important to stop gay marriage and stop teaching evolution than to have a good paying job, have strong unions, universal healthcare and reducing the debt. you get what you vote for.

Ahh yes, but Air Line Pilots think they are part of the social elitist of America. They support 10% ultra rich who have clevery convinced Air Line Pilots that they are one of them all while keeping the 10% exclusive of Air Line Pilots.

 

[whymeworry?]

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/d...07&m=June&x=20070608184507JMnamdeirF0.3027918

08 June 2007
Plans for Open North American Aviation Market Inch Forward

Policy differences make reaching trilateral deal challenging
By Andrzej Zwaniecki
USINFO Staff Writer


Washington – Sometime over the next the decade – but likely not in 2007 or 2008 -- Air Canada could be competing with U.S. carriers on the New York-Paris route and Aeromexico might be launching flights between Los Angeles and Toronto.
This vision for an open North American aviation market inched a bit closer in April when the United States, Canada and Mexico announced a plan to work toward establishing a trilateral open skies agreement, according to U.S. officials.
“We have an opportunity to set a new global standard for free and open transborder air travel, and bring greater convenience and lower prices to shippers and travelers who want to reach places like Tucson, Toronto or Torreon,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said after meeting her counterparts from Canada and Mexico in Arizona where the announcement was made. (See full text.)
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The price of an average airline ticket has risen 45% since deregulation in 1979. Meanwhile, gas is up 400%, college tuition up 638%, housing on the coasts up 1000%

How low do they want ticket prices to go? Free? The fact is, this business is not sustainable with this kind of competition. No other business in the world suffers from the same destructive competition tactics, coupled with such huge operational expenses, as our business.

Think age-65 is a problem for us? Wait until open skies and cabatoge hits our profession. We're in for the roughest ride of your life when that happens. Get your financial house in order now.

 

[SNOWBUM]

I think it is pretty clear all of us ( proletarians) in the developed world need to start a new First International. It was quite effective.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I think it is pretty clear all of us ( proletarians) in the developed world need to start a new First International. It was quite effective.

You have to convince Air Line Pilots that management views pilots just like aircraft cleaners. Air Line Pilots think they are the golden boys and everybody loves them......

 

[SNOWBUM]

You have to convince Air Line Pilots that management views pilots just like aircraft cleaners. Air Line Pilots think they are the golden boys and everybody loves them......

sad but true Rez....

 

[SNOWBUM]

"the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
freman and slave,patrician and plebeian,lord and serf,guildmaster and journeyman,in a word,oppressor and oppressed...society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps,into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeoisie and proletariat" .

that was written in1848,and after a few hopefull years, things are almost just as bad.


for those pilots who still don't get it bourgeoisie is the people in the class of modern capitalist,owners of the means social of production and employers of wage labor.
the proletaians are the people who sell their labor power in order to live: pilots.

if we start acting and voting like proletarians things will change.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

if we start acting and voting like proletarians things will change.

SB-

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Hierarchy of five human motivational needs arranged by ascending order of importance, developed by Abraham Maslow. The five ascending needs are (1) physiological, (2) safety, (3) social, (4) esteem, and (5) self-actualization. Only unsatisfied needs are motivators. Once a need is satisfied, the next level emerges as a motivator.

Problem is need #1 is precieved to be sound and untouched. It's funny, we can claim that we need to protect our borders by going to Iraq, but as the current Admin has been chipping away at our ability to satisfy need 1 we pretend all is well so we can address2, 3, 4 & 5.

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

I thought it was worker bees, consumers, and the people who hold the purse strings.
Please don't let Brittany Spears know she is a proletarian.