Originally Posted by
ThrustMonkey
Come on....pie in the sky to think the airlines would do something as noble as stop undercutting each other by a dollar to turn the industry around in favor of pilot pay/qol. Why should they be any different? Thats like saying banks should all stop charging all those extra fees to help consumers pocket books.....or grocery stores should all stop trying to run daily specials in order to drive down food prices overall.....or gas stations need to stop undercutting each other so we call all enjoy lower gas prices. Great theory but it will NEVER HAPPEN in our profits-at-all-costs based society/economy. The genie is out of the bottle.
I certainly didn't say that it wasn't "pie in the sky" and I would nOT expect any such thing from the airlines, but it doesn't change that this blaming of the consumer is misplaced. The consumer is not SETTING the price, they are reacting to it; and the consumer absolutely DOES expect a certain level of performance/safety from the service no different than you expect that off-brand, $1/gal cheaper gallon of milk to be just as safe to drink as the more expensive all-natural, milked from cows fed only the greenest of grasses under blue California skies brand super special milk sitting next to it in the store.
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