{"id":1015,"date":"2004-06-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:48:07","slug":"1015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/09\/1015\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Special in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron, of Free Will Blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/freewillblog.com\/2004_06_01_freewillblog_archive.html#108662918702458015\" target=\"new\">casts a critical eye<\/a> and two rhetorical fists of iron upon the airline industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s something of an illusion to suggest 9\/11 caused their problems. That&#8217;s only a popular excuse for today: Despite air travel growing an average of 7% a year throughout the 90&#8217;s, the airlines still struggled, and are still struggling today to deal with passenger drops from the Gulf War. In 1991. They weren&#8217;t profitable in 2000, either.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two possibilities here: They are either incompetent, or the demand for the massive infrastructure they&#8217;re trying to float simply isn&#8217;t there. In either case, they suck at doing business, as demonstrated by last year&#8217;s debacle, asking workers to take a 15% paycut to avoid bankruptcy, while simultaneously increasing their own bonuses to run away with more tax money in their pockets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re sucky crony capitalists, Aaron.  We understand laissez-faire, where one company&#8217;s (or industry&#8217;s) weakness, failure, or strength means more opportunity for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron, of Free Will Blog, casts a critical eye and two rhetorical fists of iron upon the airline industry: It&#8217;s something of an illusion to suggest 9\/11 caused their problems. That&#8217;s only a popular excuse for today: Despite air travel growing an average of 7% a year throughout the 90&#8217;s, the airlines still struggled, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23230,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/23230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}