Southwest inspectors claim roadblocks in enforcing safety rules - USATODAY.com

"Federal inspectors overseeing Southwest Airlines were blocked for years from enforcing safety rules by a conspiracy that reached into upper levels of the government, they told a House panel Thursday."

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Ephesians 5:15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyR41JbpL_g

Do you have, or have you ever had, the capacity to speak?

And also the one that has had the least need for government aid and protection to avoid bankruptcy. While all the "major airlines" were struggling to avoid bankruptcy due to economic downturns, due to higher fuel prices, or due to increased competition, Southwest has thrived. In fact, Southwest's biggest obstacles has been the regulations that have restricted their ability to take over business from the majors, restrictions that the majors lobbied government hard to sustain.

One might view airline deregulation with a bit of irony, given the role that Ted Kennedy played early on and then Carter, who signed the landmark act, which has resulted in the bankruptcy of nearly every major airline, the disappearance of the airlines that most defined commercial flight, and the bankruptcy of over a hundred small airlines.

And it isn't clear that the deregulation and its "creative destruction" actually cut fares as much as mythology suggests. Southwest is the most successful of those that deliver transport from point A to point B as a commodity. The majors have merely employed more complex yeild management strategies to obtain the maximum price from the maximum number, by charging multiple prices for the exact same service. Has the deregulation really resulted in significantly lower fares.

If before deregulation an airline carried 10 passengers for $100 each and ten empty seats, and now carries 3 for $130 each, 10 for $100 each, and 7 for $10 each, for an average of $68 and because of the extra costs of twice the number of passegers has a lower profit which might result in a loss, is the price really 30% lower? If the ten passengers who flew before end up being the ones who pay $120 (3) and $90 (7), then they pay an average of $102, paying more while suffering worse service.

The major airlines have pursued a strategy that is like a McDonalds charging Warren Buffett $1000, and 3 of the 50 homeless people a dime, for their Big Macs.

Yes. Anyone can be bought out to be a rat. But, how do they become a rat in the first place? They were bought out to begin with.

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Ephesians 5:15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyR41JbpL_g

DingDingDing...we have a winner!

So evil is everywhere, dishonesty is assumed, and if I can get away with it, that means it is ok.

The dark side of the force speaks...

You asked, I told you. Life ain't a bed of roses.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyR41JbpL_g

Yes it is.....




I find it disturbing that you so easily accept the dark side of the force...

I accept that anyone can be bought, I accept that everything I have can be gone tomorrow. Dark Force? Ha. Reality.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyR41JbpL_g

When Southwest started, the government did all it could to kill it, refusing to allow it to fly out of Dallas/Frt Worth. They had to fly out of Love Field (which is why they have the heart marks on their planes).

Now I won't go as far as to say there is a conspiracy, but given how every other major airline has had to have "emergency" inspections which has grounded large parts of their fleets makes one naturally ask the question, why Southwest. Were they an example or a scapegoat?