The Instapundit reacts to this Will Collier piece on the United Airlines scandal and states: Whatever you call this, it’s not free enterprise. Of course it isn’t- it is a legally sanctioned attempt to pass on the financial obligations of private corporations to the public. And it is going to be successful. The company underfunded …
Documenting The United Airlines Fiasco
It just gets worse and worse the more you dig: California taxpayers were left holding the bag for the corporate greed at Enron. The same is about to happen on a much larger scale with airline pension plans. In 2002, the established airlines were hit by a sudden drop in revenues (post 9/11) and, because …
United Airlines
I just don’t get it: United Airlines, which is operating in bankruptcy protection, received court permission yesterday to terminate its four employee pension plans, setting off the largest pension default in the three decades that the government has guaranteed pensions. Members of the Association of Flight Attendants marched in Washington Tuesday to urge a judge …
The United Incident
So, as it happens, I’m delayed (with thousands of others) by bad weather at the scene of yesterday’s United Airlines crime against a human, O’Hare Airport. Without exaggeration, I can say that it is the talk of this place — I’ve overheard dozens of conversations about it as I walked around killing time. Patrick Smith, …
Shafted by American Airlines
The reason I’m writing this instead of winging merrily over the Pacific Ocean, sake in hand, is that American Airlines shafted us. They canceled the local flight because they didn’t have a crew. (Which I’m guessing is airline speak for being chronically understaffed to inflate profits.) And so we missed our international flight. The woman …
COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Wednesday / Thursday, April 20-21
Moderna plans to submit an application to the U.S. health regulator for emergency use authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine among kids between the ages of six months to five years by end of the month, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. https://t.co/DOEPbHLyMu — Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) April 21, 2022
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GOP Death Cult Open Thread: Masks OFF!
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will stop requiring passengers on airplanes, trains and other public transportation to wear masks, after a federal judge struck down the mandate earlier Monday https://t.co/JBT9FbJYKE — Bloomberg (@business) April 18, 2022 That’s okay, I was never gonna get on a plane again anyways… The ruling comes from Judge Kathryn Mizelle, …