FLYLOW22
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What are we going to do, lose money? Seems to me we're enabling half the operation over there, at least the whole home basing thing for certain. When the number of uber rich stops increasing and the hangover sets in on the ones who already are, and if 10 grand an hour goes to 15 because you're finally taxed appropriately, we'll see where things shake out.
We're common carriers. We hold out to the public, but I'm not sure if we pushed for a legal interpretation airlines would be required to provide service to a customer that feeds on our vulnerabilities. Additionally, it's not like we can get much customer loyalty out of you. Sounds like you rode DAL to work because that's who you had to and then cashed in your ticket home and are riding SWA for a discount. Why don't you ride DAL home? Where's the aforementioned loyalty?
You ask as if I am involved in the decision making process. The carrier that NJ Travel chooses is most likely determined by city pairs, timing to get us from A-B and price in that order.
Good luck lobbying in Washington for that tax hike on private jets. I'd be interested to see how far ALPA dollars go up against the uber-wealthy of America. Good luck with that. A noble cause... It's a bit outta my pay grade personally so I'll just watch from here.
As far as home basing goes... well... the airlines would need to shut down a heck of a lot of cities before I would personally worry. Are you proposing that your airline should pull out of 100+ market cities to save money?
Interesting plan. Maybe you were born to be in management.