Originally Posted by
slowplay
You don't remember correctly. It was an auction of US Air Carrier slots to the highest bidder at the very low point of US airline economics. Foreign airlines were exempt.
How about we keep this discussion non-denominational... There's enough dirt to go around on both parties, and I'd hate to see this thread locked because the misrepresentations of one side were corrected!
Slow is right on this. And I am not a moderate center of the road guy. I drive happily on the right side and don't care if the left side wrecks. But Slow is right. You can say this is anti-Delta/UsAir because of a democrat administration and the likely supporters of this divestiture are major democrats but there are a lot of democrats who have thrown their support behind us as well. Also, the DOT is run by a republican, a rino, but a republican. If this is going to be reversed it'll take a bipartisan support and we can get that- we're so big we can go door to door on capitol hill and be all things to all people.
But we most certaintly have groups from both sides of the aisle for and against from what I can tell here:
Letters to DOT concerning the slot swap. Lots of Delta employees in there.
Where are the letters against it outside of the one here from Spirit? Or did I miss one, I went looking for one from SWA and JB and such. Maybe they had someone make a personal visit?
