by shortonsense » Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:30:45
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', 'Y')ou do not understand the impact that fuel was having on the industry.
This is po.com, not bummerforairlines.com
I don't CARE what impacts fuel costs have on airlines, if they had EVER had a successful business model they wouldn't need so much government intervention, they wouldn't be going bankrupt all the time ( where is Pan-Am now adays? ) and complaining about how rough their business is.
Their business isn't rough, they just refuse to make flying as expensive as it should be, if viewed on an energy-use or CO2 making basis.
Monte considered them a canary in a mine, and they certainly are still here, still complaining, still going bankrupt, and we went right through "no-more cheap oil" into "gee its cheap again" so fast it makes any decent peakers head spin.
On the positive side, as oil price stabilizes, we can reuse all the same chicken little arguements all over again as the price, and production rate, recover. Canary In A Coal Mine II as it were.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', 'Y')ou need to stop kidding yourself about whats happened to this industry. I've been living it every day. 9/11 was merely the straw that broke the camels back to an otherwise flailing industry constrained by overcapacity and rising fuel costs.
Are you still employed in the industry? If the answer is yes, then my point on the canary not being dead yet is apropo.
