Originally Posted by chazbird

US government could disallow their employees to travel on carriers, or carriers contracted with a major carrier, where the flight crew, or any employee of the company, is on any form of federal, or federally subsidized, aid (IE food stamps). When the government lets contracts with private companies they frequently require specific minimum/living wage or other similar conditions or they do not award the contracts. A 14 HR duty day with 2 hours of flying at $23 an hour is less than the federally mandated minimum wage. Carriers that scheduled or operated even one of those flights would face a blackout/ban of federal employees passengers for the entire carrier, including the overseeing carrier (IE major) Makes good sense, huh? But...good luck with that idea.