tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5949636986285738625..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: ULCCs. WTF?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-67872824292104837102017-04-24T10:14:08.171-07:002017-04-24T10:14:08.171-07:00At least you don't have to pay to get "ro...At least you don't have to pay to get "roughed up" on a flight....yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-58680900793709377692017-04-22T20:35:14.785-07:002017-04-22T20:35:14.785-07:00Mound, perhaps we just need an entrepreneurial law...Mound, perhaps we just need an entrepreneurial lawyer in need of some cash to make the fraud (preferably a class action) case...<br />A..nonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-18774042356919355422017-04-22T16:26:20.957-07:002017-04-22T16:26:20.957-07:00Anyong, it's curious how they offer "catt...Anyong, it's curious how they offer "cattle car" service these days at the same price structure of the past. No airline ever welcomes foreign competition. They all lobby fiercely against it. The experience of Emirates airways is a fine example.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-24072240084513613202017-04-22T16:17:07.771-07:002017-04-22T16:17:07.771-07:00A..non, it's hard to argue with your logic. Ye...A..non, it's hard to argue with your logic. Yes, to knowingly oversell seating, gambling that there'll be enough no-shows to let you get away with it and thus line your profit margins, ought to be prohibited. Government has the authority and the responsibility to regulate this industry.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62190169633334982632017-04-22T14:38:37.702-07:002017-04-22T14:38:37.702-07:00Anyong...I also flew Ward Air...it was such a plea...Anyong...I also flew Ward Air...it was such a pleasure. However, WestJet doesn't want any of those pesky already established airlines like Ryan Air setting up business here. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62757018530726731152017-04-22T06:15:32.536-07:002017-04-22T06:15:32.536-07:00Overbooking is a FRAUD.
When people and especiall...Overbooking <b>is a FRAUD.</b><br /><br />When people <i>and especially legislators</i> wake up to this fact?<br />And criminalize it!<br />Selling of non-existing seat (in hope that some folks will not show up) is a criminal act, plain and simple.<br />A..nonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-7006491090961309272017-04-21T22:23:22.695-07:002017-04-21T22:23:22.695-07:00Flying can be quiet existing.
https://www.youtube...Flying can be quiet existing.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAO2z22bas<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45348153810858328302017-04-21T18:12:20.354-07:002017-04-21T18:12:20.354-07:00It's not for me, TB. Fortunately I'm quite...It's not for me, TB. Fortunately I'm quite content to give up air travel and to find my recreation spots right here on the island.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-47821843614280613572017-04-21T17:46:06.245-07:002017-04-21T17:46:06.245-07:00Mound said;
The innovation is limitless. Uzbekista...Mound said;<br />The innovation is limitless. Uzbekistan Airways and Samoan Air charge passengers by weight. Just saying.<br /><br />AIr Canada would make a friggen killing using that formula.<br /><br />These past two years I have squeezed on board flights to Mexico.<br />They seemed roomy to flights I have taken with Easy Jet in Europe.<br />It amazing what inconveniences and discomfort the average flyer will put up with to go to his or her favourite beach with cheap booze.<br />Discount flying is sometimes the only way to go between point A and B as there are few other choices. <br />Discount flying is also a symptom of our attitude to life ; comparable to Wal-Mart shopping.<br />Wal-Mart flying is also driven by easy credit ; you cant even pay by cash onboard Wal/West Jet.<br /><br /><br />Sums it up..<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPy5Ikn7dw<br /><br />enjoy<br /><br /> TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77796626081579465862017-04-21T14:45:24.414-07:002017-04-21T14:45:24.414-07:00True enough, PLG. I opposed airline deregulation f...True enough, PLG. I opposed airline deregulation from the get-go. Before dereg, Canada had two healthy flag carriers. By giving each airline preferential access to certain high profit routes the same airlines could be required to offer jet service to remote northern destinations. This had a significant impact on opening up the north.<br /><br />Mulroney, in one of his first acts of neoliberalism, put paid to regulated aviation in Canada. We wound up with A/C and CP running half-empty or worse flights from Vancouver to Toronto, both losing their shirts but intent on maintaining a competitive market share. <br /><br />First to go was the jet service to secondary airports and the return of turboprop service, such as that was. Then the airlines began a pattern of strategic mergers/takeovers by which one airline after another was consumed, eliminated, until there finally was just one.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53133767056583954432017-04-21T14:00:54.304-07:002017-04-21T14:00:54.304-07:00There was a now little-known group called the Rail...There was a now little-known group called the Railway Economists who basically proved that in the presence of price competition, businesses such as railroads will inevitably bankrupt themselves. It would apply to airlines too--they would absolutely have predicted the waves of price wars and mergers and bankruptcies in the (privatized and deregulated) airline business.<br />See, here's the thing: A business that requires big capital expenditures, with heavy fixed costs, is vulnerable to a basic problem if it has to compete on price with rivals. The problem is that when you're charging passengers, you're charging them for two components of your costs: The costs you actually incur per customer, like fuel use and paying staff and buying airline food and whatever like that. AND, the costs you incurred before you even got any customers, like paying for big expensive jets, access to chunks of airports and so on. Getting this latter stuff usually involves taking on debt, which you're trying to pay off.<br />So, here's the rub: Say you have two airlines. And say either airline can break even with half the passenger base at $1000 per ticket. Of that, $500 goes for operating costs and $500 is debt service for sunk costs like jets. Airline A would make far more money if it had ALL the passengers at $900. More even than you'd think because the debt service would stay the same, spread over more passengers. So let's say it cuts the price. Airline B is better off matching or exceeding the price cut than losing all its customers, right?<br /><br />Where it gets nasty is that, after they've cut the prices a couple of times, they are now both losing money, but they are also caught: If they're charging say $800 per passenger now, they in a sense lose money on each passenger--but they'd still be worse off if increased prices and lost business, because each passenger still pays for more than the operating costs it incurs.<br />The railway economists concluded that in businesses like that, if there is price competition the price charged per customer will inevitably fall to just over the operating costs per customer, leaving the interest on the debt, the sunk costs, largely unserviced and resulting in a spiral into bankruptcy. This can only be stopped by either a price cartel, mergers until monopoly is reached, all competitors but one going under, or nationalization. Or a combination of these things.<br /><br />In airlines, we've had waves of bankruptcies and mergers, leading to behemoths like United with some ability to set prices and erect barriers to entry, but it is unlikely that the story is yet over. There will likely continue to be crisis in the airline industry until some monopolist emerges capable of thoroughly cheating us without challenge.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-46266744293206840852017-04-21T13:04:23.382-07:002017-04-21T13:04:23.382-07:00Cheap Flights with subtitles
https://www.youtube...Cheap Flights with subtitles <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxMTobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8529576555063382992017-04-21T12:22:38.679-07:002017-04-21T12:22:38.679-07:00Yeah, the time when flying was enjoyable, somethin...Yeah, the time when flying was enjoyable, something one might even look forward to, is now a time past. Flying pigs indeed.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43661263503095402602017-04-21T12:11:09.536-07:002017-04-21T12:11:09.536-07:00You want to be inside the plane for your flight? T...You want to be inside the plane for your flight? That's extra.Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62359291808409024782017-04-21T11:57:30.802-07:002017-04-21T11:57:30.802-07:00It may have been James J. Hill, the Great Northern...It may have been James J. Hill, the Great Northern Railroad exec who said something to the effect that there is more profit transporting pigs than people. He was assuredly right. What is so puzzling to me is that so many people choose to let themselves be treated as pigs in order to save a buck or two. Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-71146168195071123492017-04-21T11:48:17.932-07:002017-04-21T11:48:17.932-07:00I do remember Ward Air and still have a match book...I do remember Ward Air and still have a match book from the airline. those were the days, we could even smoke. all air lines had decent service and there was lots of room on the flights. These days I'd rather spend 10/12 hours driving then an hour or so on a plane. It truly is cattle car class these days.<br /><br />I think their new no frills airline will have smaller seats, less leg room, etc. wonder what they will do when a disabled person wants to book.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.com