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I've started flying exclusively with Southwest for two reasons: everything's free that should be free, and their DING! application. You tell it what airports you use, and a couple times a day it pops up with a 50-70% discounted offer. If the dates and destinations work for you, you book them, usually about a month in advance. If your plans change and need to cancel, they give you a full credit for use later. Also helps to be on their frequent flier program.
Originally posted by Fallen4ng31
the millions (Perhaps billions, I don't recall.) that we have dumped in tax dollars to the airlines, they owe us some free travel vouchers every year.
Herein you see the problem of allowing government interference in private enterprise. The taxpayers have only paid the price for poor management, and encouraged the weak companies to continue running inefficiently, bleeding money more than ever since their existence is guaranteed. By doing so, you've entitled yourself to nothing but worse service. Plus you're paying for everyone else to fly on a crappy airline all year, every paycheck.
Someone might argue that removing government subsidies/bailouts from airlines would cause so many airlines to go out of business that the prices would skyrocket and it would cost $10,000 to fly. Maybe so, but if that's the true cost of flying, maybe only those with a desperate need to fly, or the financial ability should be able to do so. In that case the poor wouldn't be paying for the rich to fly everyday like they do under government support.
Look at Russia and Aeroflot's story. Communism doesn't pay.
Call/Write your Representatives, Senators, and State Governor and tell them you don't support the bailouts of the American automakers either. They make shitty cars. Make it stop. Do you really want to pay for all those poor Escalades and Hummers sitting in dealer inventory? If you say nothing, demand no accountability from your government, your frustration here makes no difference, and they're free to do what they want with your money and give you nothing in return.
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