Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
"Allow"? What, you want to reinstitute regulation? I know a lot of Democrats do and frankly the major airlines probably wouldn't mind -- they were making money hand-over-fist before deregulation and didn't have to worry about competing with low-fare airlines. Want that $300-400 cheap trip to Chicago or Atlanta or Orlando? Good luck with that. Airfares in the 1970s were generally more expensive than today and that's not counting the difference caused by comparing 1970s dollars to 2010s dollars. Airlines are making money today but no one is counting that against the years of bleeding they suffered as they learned to adapt to the modern market.

The REAL simple solution was for Dr. Dao to comply with the request then demand an alternate flight on a competing airline that got him home that night. One of his proponents claimed on the talk shows that there were seats on another airline (although they had suggested putting the crew on that flight, it makes more sense for the airline to keep their crew in their system and pay to fulfill their contract of carriage even if it required use of another airline.
Demand huh? Both myself and my co worker were stranded (not together) recently due to the Delta airlines lack of crew available and I couldn't even get them to let me sleep in the terminal let alone demand anything. All both he and I were told to go pound sand. How exactly was he going to demand to get on another carriers flight?