WRT the second one, every time I observe ramp operations at any airport in that market, its just so screamingly obvious that you don't need more workers, you need better work from your workers. You could probably cut staffing by half and still get a better job done if people hussled and cared as in a truly ingrained work ethic. Of course you'd have to pay more. The economic evidence that raising the minumum wage in general increases income inequality and unemployment is indisputable. That said, I'm all in favor of giving NYC below the wing a raise. A big one in fact. Provided they hussle for it and actually G.A.S. as opposed to the slow crawl of indifference you see at every gate with every airline there. While ATL has gotten a little better, the same thing applies there as well.