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Re: Direction of the US Airlines

Rosie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:35:46 -0000

It's so weird reading this because I just did a 3 city trip with a layover and probably have had the best experience I've ever had. Everyone was really courteous and everything was ontime. It was really surprising.

I don't think it's about gas prices either. If it were, airlines would charge by the miles not by whatever they're feeling like charging for that day.It's kinda ridiculous that for the same flight two people sitting next to each other can pay hundreds of dollars different. If it were about gas they'd not mess with the baggage charges and all these other (insignificant) random charges and just do flat rates.

Re: Direction of the US Airlines

mcmo11 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:29:58 -0000

happy birthday John :D

Re: Direction of the US Airlines

Lee Richards — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:04:05 -0000

Taken from The Onion :

American To Charge For First Checked Bag

American Airlines announced that they would be charging $15 for a customer's first checked bag. What new revenue streams are the other airlines implementing?

United—$25 seatbelt rental fee for passengers who didn't bring their own

Midwest—$35 to sit in the passenger compartment

JetBlue—New fee structure for wait times on runway: $150 for under 2 hours, $75 for under 4 hours, etc.

Frontier Airlines—$20 penalty if passenger is not wearing coonskin cap

Continental—$100 reduced-fare tickets for standing-room-only passengers

Southwest—Ten bucks to touch the captain

Virgin—$30 fee for booking a flight with another carrier

Delta—$50 to chip in for gas

On a more serious note, BA here in the UK has just announced it will be increasing its fuel surcharges on June 3rd to 'as they say' offset fuel charges. This is despite a 45% rise in profits to £883M ($1.76B). As stated in the comment above, the amount of people that are able to travel by air is going to reduce, which means the airlines will make even less money, so they will have to hike prices even further. The higher the prices, the less passengers they'll get. It's a vicious circle! Where will it end I wonder. At the very least, I'm sure there will be plenty more smaller airlines going out of business.

On a more cheerful , Happy Birthday!

Re: Direction of the US Airlines

PaulHunt — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:43:57 -0000

With the state that the airlines are in now because of the rising cost of oil, the only people who are going to be flying are the people who NEED to travel not the people who want to. Flights are going to cut many of their flights that now don't make them money because of the ever rising cost of fuel. I was reading this article called Silent Spring for Aviation and it explained its reasoning. Its a great little article to read because it seems every little aspect of our lives are being effected by this gas crisis.

Re: Direction of the US Airlines

beebowallace — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:57:54 -0000

I am not a an of flying at all ...

My dad is a retired Navy pilot, my mom worked at American her whole life. My sister even worked for Midway for a bit.

Me, I really really really really dislike flying. I am flying out to Seattle in a few weeks and I am not really looking froward to the flight.

Anyways, I really can not comment about the state of things with the airlines ... however I've never really had a problem with them. I guess as long as I make it to my destination in one piece I am good to go.