What's it gonna take?

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:29:08 GMT, "Mike Isaksen"
wrote:


Right, and I thought that morphed into the Gate Hold procedure following the
Avianca (oops, I circled so long I may have just run out of fuel) crash.

You mean the guy who never said "Emergency", and landed in residential
Queens?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
...to fix the airlines?

I mean, really. No politics. No FAA union/management propaganda.
Just the facts, ma'am.

Here's what I *think* I know:

- Major airports (or "hubs") are way over-crowded, beyond capacity
- Minor airports (or "spokes") are becoming over-crowded, too
- GA airports (like Iowa City) are vastly under-utilized

You should take a look at the trends over the past 5-7 years.

The airlines (major carriers) share of the market is diminishing, and the
regional's share is booming.

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:55:46 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote in
:

The airlines (major carriers) share of the market is diminishing, and the
regional's share is booming.

If you're a dinosaur, and you fail to adapt to the changing
environment and evolve into something viable, extinction is
inevitable.

The major carriers are buying smaller aircraft to compete with the
regionals. Clearly that strategy is not working for the flying
public. Perhaps they should scale back, and be content with long-haul
business exclusively. But that would require major air carriers to
face the reality of a deregulated marketplace.

Alternatively, they can use their political muscle to force their
survival agenda on the nation's infrastructure at tax payers expense.
Ain't deregulation grand. :-(

Matt Barrow wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
...to fix the airlines?

I mean, really. No politics. No FAA union/management propaganda.
Just the facts, ma'am.

Here's what I *think* I know:

- Major airports (or "hubs") are way over-crowded, beyond capacity
- Minor airports (or "spokes") are becoming over-crowded, too
- GA airports (like Iowa City) are vastly under-utilized

You should take a look at the trends over the past 5-7 years.

The airlines (major carriers) share of the market is diminishing, and
the regional's share is booming.

This is because they are turning over the spokes to the regionals. That's
what they should have done from the get-go.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
...
Matt Barrow wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
...to fix the airlines?

You should take a look at the trends over the past 5-7 years.

The airlines (major carriers) share of the market is diminishing, and
the regional's share is booming.

This is because they are turning over the spokes to the regional's. That's
what they should have done from the get-go.

And the regional's are going into some pretty obscure towns as well as some
suburban locales.

One thing promoting this is that businesses are no longer compelled to
locate in major cities, particularly for their satellite offices. For
example, Elgin, IL is getting a lot of businesses moving from Chicago and
O'Hare.

The costs of doing business out of a major metro area will have as much
impact as the FAA and user fees.

Ahhh jeez guys, the solution is so simple... Reinstitute the CAA with
all their original powers to regulate the airlines and presto-chango:
1 Ticket fees will triple or quadruple
2 Stu's will be wearing semi military uniforms with pert little hats
and they will be young, single, and nubile
3 The number of daily flights will be regulated by law
4 The airline airports will become quiet and dusty places inbetween
the 6 daily flights allowed
5 Leave it to Beaver will begin a new series
6 The Contrail Conspiracists will all have to move in with the TWA800
group
7. Nuculer families will once again be a working father and a
homemaker mom
8 Gas will be under a dollar a gallon

I could go on and on, but I don't want to dazzle you too much... Just
think it through...

denny

(What Denny says)
"Ahhh jeez guys, the solution is so simple... Reinstitute the CAA with all
their original powers to regulate the airlines and presto-chango:
.....snip...."


(What Montblack hears)
"blah blah NUBILE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah NUBILE blah blah
blah blah blah..."