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Subject: Re: Legacy airlines should have smashed their unions long ago Posted on: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:34:28 +0000 (UTC)


"Baldur" wrote in message
news:Q8U1L6L238283.6367592593@anonymous...
> In article <5cab30cc.0410230842.183a3489@posting.google.com>
> jesus@mytrashmail.com (Salim al-Hukmatyr) wrote:
>>
>> This expectation by militant unions of prosperity no matter
> what has
>> doomed the major carriers.
>>
>> They destroyed steel and cars. Now they are destroying an
> industry --
>> domestic flights, at least -- that didn't even have foreign
>> competition.
>>
>> Unions are a scourge, a bane, and a plague.
>
> Airbus wiped out McDonnel-Douglas and seems to be well on its
> way to wiping out Boeing.
>

Wrong, McDonnel-Douglas did it to themselves
with the DC-10 and this happened before Airbus
were more than a minor player.

> Airbus is very strongly unionized.
>

So is Boeing

Keith