My boss, super nice guy, road tripped in an RV with his family for three weeks to Yellowstone. Shitty timing with the flooding. They RV’d so they wouldn’t have to fly or stay in hotels because they were avoiding people. He has an auto immune called, Celiacs. He and his entire family were vaxed to the gills to protect him. They all got Covid on vacation. The vaccine is a joke.
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Never flown, don't plan to start anytime soon. My car may not be as fast as a flight across country, but I can control the mode of transportation instead of relying on anything else.
Its not possible to witness all of America from a plane. Drive across the US and you'll see some pretty sweet things.
Its not possible to witness all of America from a plane.
You're right, and I love to drive places for this reason, but flying is one of the most amazing things I've ever done. You're missing out if you never fly. I don't mean just getting somewhere fast, I mean just the act of flying. If the world ever gets sorted out I'm going to train for powered paragliding. Has to be one of the most amazing feelings in existence.
Let me redpill you on this: it started a few years before the covid horse shit.
Several "discount" airlines discovered and pioneered a new business model for an airline that was the most efficient possible - they scheduled flights, let's say a flight from NYC-London, every night. Tickets were sold. The profitability of a flight is based upon the average ticket price and how full it is, so the airline would simply CANCEL any flight that didn't meet its profitability target the day before.
They're all doing this now - they don't have enough staff, fuel, or planes because they are trying to operate with the bare minimum and to accomplish a real airline operation you need to have extras to deal with shortages, flight path changes, weather delays, etc. So now they just don't do that, sell every flight possible, and assign the staff and plane to whichever flights are most profitable and cancel the rest.
Cherry picking implies they have excess capacity that they're not using. This isn't the case. If it were, airlines wouldn't have pricing power since it would still benefit the larger carriers to flood the markets of smaller carriers. T
They are doing part of what you said: overbooking their schedule. Except when they cancel they really are short airplanes and pilots, just like when they overbook a flight they really are short some seats. All routes are profitable, all the time. They have pricing power because no one can meet demand. Buffet saw this and bought in a few years ago.
It's a boom bust cycle. Airlines languished for over a decade. Now we're in the middle of a boom. The bust will come again soon.
you aren't addressing what has changed, which is the frequency of cancelations. It's not as if they don't know how many staff, planes, etc they have. In the past, they wouldn't overschedule flights they couldn't possibly meet. Now they do it as a matter of course - it's exactly like overbooking seats as you mention, only now they overbook flights. It's more insidious because they are scheduling flights they don't have any intention of making sometimes. For example, if you know there's a popular time slot you schedule the flight, and gather bookings (and money) from 75 passengers. "Cancel" the flight, then rebook them onto times and flight days you can actually provide.
United delayed my flight by 3 hours and then canceled it for weather conditions. I called mu buddy in the area i was flying to and the weather had cleared up a long while ago. They said they couldnt get staff for the plane due to weather but I know that was bullshit. They tried to schedule me for a flight 6 hours later, and that one got delayed too. I told them to go fuck themselves and left. Fuck united. Shit company. Sounds like all the fucks are doing the same thing now to make more money.
I used to work for a major airline. They wouldn't do this because it would royally fuck up their intricate flight schedule — not just for the day, but it would cascade into the following days. If this is happening it's because something is going wrong in the system.
Air travel as we know it is fast coming to end. The JWO does not want people traveling so all the bullshit we are currently witnessing. The increasing radiation exposure due to the Earth's collapsing magnetic field, however, is an even bigger problem. It shouldn't be too much longer before the commercial airline industry all but disappears.
same is happening everywhere. all the same issues, all the same outcomes, in every nation, all in line with the WEF great reset agenda switching to 'renewables'. obviously they could fix the issues overnight if they wanted to, this is all done on purpose.
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The bioweapon itself isn't a joke. It's the fact they got you to call it a vaccine, that's the punchline.
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Its not possible to witness all of America from a plane. Drive across the US and you'll see some pretty sweet things.
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You're right, and I love to drive places for this reason, but flying is one of the most amazing things I've ever done. You're missing out if you never fly. I don't mean just getting somewhere fast, I mean just the act of flying. If the world ever gets sorted out I'm going to train for powered paragliding. Has to be one of the most amazing feelings in existence.
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Several "discount" airlines discovered and pioneered a new business model for an airline that was the most efficient possible - they scheduled flights, let's say a flight from NYC-London, every night. Tickets were sold. The profitability of a flight is based upon the average ticket price and how full it is, so the airline would simply CANCEL any flight that didn't meet its profitability target the day before.
They're all doing this now - they don't have enough staff, fuel, or planes because they are trying to operate with the bare minimum and to accomplish a real airline operation you need to have extras to deal with shortages, flight path changes, weather delays, etc. So now they just don't do that, sell every flight possible, and assign the staff and plane to whichever flights are most profitable and cancel the rest.
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They are doing part of what you said: overbooking their schedule. Except when they cancel they really are short airplanes and pilots, just like when they overbook a flight they really are short some seats. All routes are profitable, all the time. They have pricing power because no one can meet demand. Buffet saw this and bought in a few years ago.
It's a boom bust cycle. Airlines languished for over a decade. Now we're in the middle of a boom. The bust will come again soon.
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