Airlines To Cancel Flights
03-11-2010, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Herkulesdrvr
Love it! They cried and demanded Congress do something.
I can't wait to see what happens if Congress passes CVR monitoring rules and anti-commuting rules. In the meantime, everyone should load up on Greyhound Lines stock.
03-11-2010, 05:19 AM
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Originally Posted by cal73
I'm all for showing congress what the "law of unintended consequences" is all about but what that suggests borders on malicious and deceitful. Besides sitting in my office for hours on end while not getting paid does not sound like something I'd be gung ho about anyway.
To the Politicians,
Fix the flocking airspace/atc system and most of these problems would not happen. Use at least 1/4 of the money you get from all the taxation you shovel onto the airlines for improving the NAS. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
To the Politicians,
Fix the flocking airspace/atc system and most of these problems would not happen. Use at least 1/4 of the money you get from all the taxation you shovel onto the airlines for improving the NAS. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
03-11-2010, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by jsled
Kate Hanni became a passenger rights advocate, founded FlyersRights.org and pushed for the three-hour rule after being stranded for 10 hours on an American Airlines flight three years ago. She says travelers prefer cancellations to the uncertainty of being trapped on a stranded airplane or stranded at an airport halfway through their journey.
"We don't get complaints when people are stuck in airports, only when they are stuck on airplanes. It's better for airlines to pre-cancel," she said. "They are trying to scare everybody that canceling is some kind of horrific travel nightmare and it's not."
Her theory is about to be tested. I can't wait to see all the glares we will be getting at the airport as we walk away from a perfectly good airplane on a perfectly good day on our way to go home... and they get to sleep on the floor at JFK. Yeah, that is MUCH better than arriving late at your destination..
03-11-2010, 09:35 AM
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So, the airlines figure they don't want to play given the rules congress shoved down their throats with the passenger protection legislation.
What should that tell pilots about what needs to be done on the subject of CVR access? Surely the airline management people will understand if we take our ball and go home.
What should that tell pilots about what needs to be done on the subject of CVR access? Surely the airline management people will understand if we take our ball and go home.
03-11-2010, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Captain Bligh
What should that tell pilots about what needs to be done on the subject of CVR access? Surely the airline management people will understand if we take our ball and go home.
All that's going to do is get pilots in legal trouble for tampering with the CVR if they start to notice a trend.
03-11-2010, 10:49 AM
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Hi!
Why don't the airlines schedule their landings and takeoffs at each airport so there will be no landing/takeoff/gate access delays? Obviously, there is no controlling the WX, but if the airlines schedule 1000 movements at O'Hare between 1700-1900, and it can only accomodate 500 mvmts, delays will occur.
If I were gov't I would not allow more landings/takeoffs per hour, at any airport, than can be accomodated by ATC, the runways, taxiways and the gate availability. That would solve a huge chunk of the delay problems.
cliff
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Why don't the airlines schedule their landings and takeoffs at each airport so there will be no landing/takeoff/gate access delays? Obviously, there is no controlling the WX, but if the airlines schedule 1000 movements at O'Hare between 1700-1900, and it can only accomodate 500 mvmts, delays will occur.
If I were gov't I would not allow more landings/takeoffs per hour, at any airport, than can be accomodated by ATC, the runways, taxiways and the gate availability. That would solve a huge chunk of the delay problems.
cliff
NBO
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