After I nearly choked on my coffee, I almost laughed my ass off. Then I shook my head in dismay. What class on history of airlines did you flunk?

The initial airlines started out as air mail contracts. Eastern Air Transport shortened to Eastern. Trans Continental and Western became TWA. Yes some got shortened.

Peoples Express? Post regulation
Kiwi? It was an INSIDE JOKE because we had our wings "clipped" by Lorenzo
and could not fly. So we started our own
Air Florida? was an INTRASTATE carrier before deregulation
Braniff? Was started by Tom and Paul Braniff in Oklahoma in the late 20's
as Tulsa-Oklahoma Cities Airways and grew throughout the US,
Central and South America
Pan Am? Started by Juan Trippe in Florida

Shall we go on? Jesus, this is freshman aviation history stuff. Along with deregulation and how the industry works. Please, with all due respect, learn about that which you speak before you do. The same with regulation.If you don't understand it, learn it before you pronounce policy theory.

Re-regulation need not be about setting prices for seats. It can be about determining minimum operating rates for equipment types for which an airline must operate. Minimum standards for city service...a whole lot of things that can be looked at to dampen out the ten year airline economic cycle that has existed since deregulation began and the oversight that was required was left in the ditch by Reagan.

To make the arguement that to save jobs, we should allow capacity to grow unfettered only means more jobs at substandard pay rates because there will always be some idiot who can con financiers out of enough money to start up and run for a few years, pay crap wages and charge crap fares. Everyone else will race to match them to stay "competetive" in a losing market, demand concessions and gut agreements. And there will always be someone willing to fly for nothing to build time...not experience...time.

So we can all join in the race to the bottom and make 7-11 wages or stop the madness now.

Again...please...read and understand your history...remember what Santayana...no, NOT Santana...said,

"those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"

or for modern times:

"Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result?