It is costing more and more money to heat my home, more money to fill up up my car. It gives me less disposable income for a trip. |
Obviously the schedule charter business has not been successful for them. |
Poor on-time performance is the airlines' fault to the extent that people want to buy their products - the fares are ridiculously low. There's a highly competitive market that benefits consumers because they'll get somewhere cheaply. They just might not get there on time. |
The airlines are being constrained by an air-traffic control system that is billions of dollars behind where it needs to be financially and decades behind where it needs to be technologically. |
They can't do that now because the next flight is full, too. |
You can't criticize Independence Air's management for trying something, but it was apparent it wasn't working after a month. They should have changed it then, but they were all too busy drinking the Kool-Aid. |