On June 15, AA will start charging its customers $15 for their first checked bag. Additionally, they will retire 45-50 planes and cut domestic flight capacity by up to 12 percent in Q4 2008. As if travel wasn’t already an experience enjoyed more and more only by sado-masochists.
Who needs Al Qaeda when there’s an oil cartel bringing this country to its economic knees? They’re redundant. Flying, especially the kind associated with pleasure travel, is rapidly becoming a luxury that more and more people will cut or just eliminate. This is NOT good for anybody, let alone the battered brands of the carriers. Wish I had an answer. What we get from our leaders amounts to maximizing demand, minimizing supply, and buying the rest from the guys who hate us the most. Think the new resident in the White House next January is going to bring relief? Dream on.
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