Comments on: Scrapped Flights Threaten Reeling Industry

Loss Of Money And Goodwill May Spread For Airlines Already Beset With High Fuel Costs

[gasman0186]

Not sure if any one realizes that jet fuel is now accounting for more than 40% of the airlines budget...with a setback like this affecting American and a few other airlines, the question of whether the airline industry as a whole can survive is a serious one. Just this past weekend, ATA, Aloha, and Sky Bus shut down, while not legacy carriers it is a disturbing trend that is certain to continue possibly with the bigger airlines to come. Unfortunately I dont think there is anything anyone can do about it really...

[sgtrds]

Hope U like fried rice, etc.!!

Posted by drf1499 at 06:12 PM : Apr 10, 2008

Great place for it on West Olympic in west L.A. called Hop Sings. Best beef fried rice in California, bar none.

I''m 73. Based on living thru events especially since 1960, this once great nation is now a "has been". China will be the next Superpower. Hope U like fried rice, etc.!!

[gasman0186]

Not sure if any one realizes that jet fuel is now accounting for more than 40% of the airlines budget...with a setback like this affecting American and a few other airlines, the question of whether the airline industry as a whole can survive is a serious one. Just this past weekend, ATA, Aloha, and Sky Bus shut down, while not legacy carriers it is a disturbing trend that is certain to continue possibly with the bigger airlines to come. Unfortunately I dont think there is anything anyone can do about it really...

[gasman0186]

Not sure if any one realizes that jet fuel is now accounting for more than 40% of the airlines budget...with a setback like this affecting American and a few other airlines, the question of whether the airline industry as a whole can survive is a serious one. Just this past weekend, ATA, Aloha, and Sky Bus shut down, while not legacy carriers it is a disturbing trend that is certain to continue possibly with the bigger airlines to come. Unfortunately I dont think there is anything anyone can do about it really...

[sgtrds]

So the Bush appopinted heads of the FDA are in bed with the airlines and lets them slide on safety inspections because they''ll cost them money, until whistle blowers turn them in and now some of the airlines are in trouble financially because they have to ground planes to inspect the planes like they should have been doing all along. Well I think the answer is obvious and I don''t know why Bush hasn''t proposed it yet! Taxpayer paid for government bailout! After all we can''t let the rich airline owners lose money can we!

[cyberdjs4]

@ Rudy2281.

Dude, don''t forget that we also keep thinking religion will make all of your valid points better.

I''m still waiting.

[davidlar2]

I think I will start an American legacy-style carrier. I won''t actually buy any airplanes. I will just sell tickets, cancel all flights every day, hire 20,000 people, pay myself millions of dollars per year and ask the government for a bailout and subsidy to prevent 20,000 job losses....

[rudy2281]

American ingenuity-know how-technological supremacy give us mastery over:
The Katrina disaster
Failed FBI computer systems
Failed IRS computer systems
A lagging (?failing) auto industry
Idiots who apply for and idiots who issue sub-prime loans
American and United Airlines
Outsourced jobs
The venerable American news media
The chimp, his war and a crumbling economy
Crumbling infrastructure
Hero worship (Jesse James-Michael Jackson-Brittney Spears)

But not the crazy weather.

[lloydbest1]

If American (and maybe other) airlines had acted on FAA instructions in a timely fashion....
If airlines in general weren''t so concerned with the opinions of the stockholders and more so with that of the passengers they are supposed to serve....
If airlines weren''t consistantly behind schedule even when there are no distruptions (on the roughly 30 flights I''ve been on since 1999, exactly one was on time; and that one, interestingly enough, was on American)...
If airlines had extra craft held in reserve just for situations such as this...
If airlines didn''t consistantly overbook (ksl_188, I have never been on a flight in the last 15 years, at least that was not overbooked. I wish I had your luck finding those half empty flights)....

(Sigh...) If frogs had wings, far fewer of them would be et by the snapping turtles.