Subject: Re: Folks can't afford to fly & think the airlines suck anyway

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Subject: Re: Folks can't afford to fly & think the airlines suck anyway

Posted on: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:23:42 +0000 (UTC)

AES writes:

> In article ,
> SMS wrote:
>
>> The decrease in air travel has very little to do with any fear of
>> something like another 9/11. It's basically that the economy is in bad
>> shape with little disposable income for leisure travel (money is going
>> to food and fuel) and that the airlines can't raise prices enough to
>> cover their fuel costs so instead they are cutting back and moving on to
>> a new era of drastically reduced air travel, both for business and
>> leisure. You can thank W and his cohorts in the Republican party for all
>> of this.
>
> Agreement, and disagreement.

I'd agree with AES's points there, nicely put.

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