Disagree.

While it wasn't exactly mini-tyke T-ball, it fell well short of the "hard hitting" expose' that was promised.

I've seen faster pitches at slow-pitch softball.

Everyone KNOWS what the problem is. It looked like a couple of folks wanted to just blurt it out, but they knew they'd never be "VP" of anything after that.

Nu

 

I agree that it wasn't very hard hitting. It did show some blatant violations, illustrated the lifestyle, and showed Cohen making a complete and total butt of himself in terms everyone can understand.

So, for the flying public it did hit their perspective very well. They don't understand much...this very simply put it out there.

Too bad it was on PBS...

Aso... I don't think a solution was truly put out there. It seemed to hit that the companies that outsource the flying should have complete oversight over the outsourced companies...but how?

It also didn't really hit on the "traditional" career progression and how the regionals are so easily able to fill the seats on the airliners.

I suppose it was basically what I expected...Wouldn't mind a sequal.



Oh...and check this gem out: One Level of Safety

Check out the stereotypical "old" pilot making a turdburglar of himself for the RAA...

 

Prater didn't say much either...

 

I am still trying to figure out where the crashpad they showed was and if it was mine.

 

Stalag 17 with William Holden is on TCM right now, and those conditions look better than that crash pad...

 

If that was a prison there would be outrage as the poor treatment of the prisoners.

I will say this, when the dude said his crash pad rented out the couch and the closet I thought about how I once rented a couch for over a year. Literally the couch in the sun room and I'd loved to have rented a walk in closet. Man how nice would that be? You're own room, dark and quiet? Oh I'd been all over that.

Sad isn't it? But its true.

P.S. I loved the badges hanging from the bed... that's the real deal right there.

 

So question, trivia one, in a slot swap what precedence exists for the DOT to be able to say you have to sell a large % (or any %) of the slots in the swap to competitors?

Just curious.

I think now we go after the DOT's ruling and if that doesn't work we give some slots to Spirit and some slots to any Canadian airline (grab Porter out of EWR) that wants in to LGA or DCA.

Of course I'm waiting for the DOT to hand JAL-AMR ATI, followed quickly by finally handing them the British Airways-AMR ATI, then hand AMR the USAir terminal so that they can do what DAL was planning on doing and thats have the nicest two terminals in LGA/JFK.

Also, does Continental need to be forced to downsize its operations in EWR for competition sake? I mean they own that airport. That's theirs. I guess for some reason they're the only ones allowed to do that in the 3 big airports in NYC.

Will we furlough?

 

I looked over at my wife and said "been there, done that! It sucked as bad as it looked..."

 

If anyone was flying or missed the Frontline episode about the regionals, you can view it on their website:

FRONTLINE: flying cheap | PBS

 

I once had a crashpad in NYC that cost me $250/mo. There was a walk-in closet in one room that the slum lord was able to get $300/mo for and everyone in the place had their name on a waiting list for that closet if the current closet tenant left. We had 32 guys in a 5 bedroom/1 closet house.