That's fine as long as we can dump the RLA. Imagine if we could strike as a global airline!

$$$ Dr. Evil Laugh $$$

 

Yup. We will be paid in gold bullion. Assuming the rest of the world doesnt hord it by the time this happens.

 

To have global airlines, means a few things.

1) The RLA would not apply to foreign carriers therefore not to its US employees.

2) They would base the companies in countries where unions are illegal

3) They are way ahead of us in their line of thinking. Be very careful what you wish for.

 

Maybe I'll get paid in barrels of oil.

 

Not only that, but considering the sky hasn't fallen with the GM bankruptcy (Yet), I wouldn't be surprised if the government would let the chips fall as they may.

Rhetorcally speaking, if lets say if one of the giants such as DAL goes down in bankruptcy, what would the economic impact be? Would barriers such as price and availabilty go up effecting commerce and tourism? Not to mention job loss.

 

Of course it's political. Your obvious contempt of the other decisions of the current administration is quite out in the open.

How are those subsidies/assistance (whatever you want to call it) any different from the gov't sponsored sham bankruptcies that allowed massive cuts to employee pay and benefits under the guise of 'restructuring' while the upper managements laughed all the way to the bank?

Just sayin'....

Call it what it is at least. But it is political.

If the easy bankruptcy laws (which have since been change IIRC) had not existed, we would now probably be living in an airline world without United Airlines and US Airways. And maybe one or two others.

And anyway, distasteful as those bankruptcies were, many folks still have jobs because of them.

I also don't wish to make it political. This is not the place for that. But at the end of the day it can't really not be political. It's the nature of the beast when dealing with corporations worth billions of dollars and which employ tens of thousands of people, all of them voters.

 

I think that they need to. It is the political fallout that makes that a career killer for any politician!

 

Hah! We'll be paid in US dollars, which after the hyper-inflation hits, will save "Global Airlines" a ton. It will be like paying pilots in pesos.

I don't see the presently constituted US government allowing a major legacy carrier to fail. Get ready to compete with an airline that has the unlimited pockets of the US taxpayer at it's disposal.

 

Then why haven't we heard a peep about airline bailouts? I find it hard to believe mainline airlines have a much better financial position than GM etc. Either the airline lobby is very weak or congress/the public doen't really care. More likely the government simply doen't want to risk "investing" in the airlines.

 

Oh so true.

Take one look at GM and just picture us there in a year or so.