Originally Posted by
Timbo
Reregulation of the industry is the only way it will stop.
Don't hold your breath waiting for that though! Too many Congressmen and Senators want to fly with their girlfriends to their condos in Palm Beach, for $49.
Regulation is a terrible answer. If it were the 1930s, the regulations enacted might be something professional pilots would be interested in.
Unfortunately, it's 2012, and Congress cares about something completely different now. Any new rules would exist to
protect the rights of the passenger, and do absolutely nothing to return pilots to the pay or schedules of the pre-'78. If anything, it would handcuff pilots to pitiful wages, likely restrict labor actions to more severe rules than the RLA, and permanently put a wet blanket on "improving the profession" which would require further Congressional action to undo.
A terrible, terrible idea.