Wednesday, March 10

lowenstein...lowenstein

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/Airlines-Threaten-to-Cancel-Flights-Before-Paying-Fines-for-Delays-87181947.html

Great idea government. So once again you've managed to take something that was terribly crummy, and make it even worst. It seems almost effortless, and really you should be applauded for the ease with which you are able to do it. why is it these fines are going anyway? $27,500? what ever fines/penalties the airlines are paying ought to be going to the flyers they have inconvenienced. I feel confident in saying (although the article failed to specify) that the money will be going to the government. What did the government do to deserve money? Nothing. How was the government inconvenienced or harmed, not at all. Obviously any fine money should be going to the passengers. For $27,500 i'll spend 3 days on a plane and shit in my pants when the toilet get's full. You could have much smaller fines of say $1,000 that go directly to the passenger. That would provide some small motivation for airlines to not have huge delays on tarmacs, while also benefiting the aggrieved party in such cases, and not giving such an enormous incentive to airlines simply to cancel flights when there is any risk at all of penalty. And people would actually be happy about a government regulation for once. It's clearly an everyone wins situation (at least compared to the governments current plan), which is exactly why the government could never implement it. Hopefully this is just an intentional theft/money grab by the government at a time when they have no money. More likely the government has accidentally just put another nail into an airline business that was already struggling. Or maybe the democrats have outfoxed everyone, and are intentionally trying to killing the airline business to stop global warming.

p.s although the title of this post is obscure, it is a simpsons reference and is at least tangentially related to this post. See if you can figure it out without use of the internet. Double points if anyone recognized it before reading this post script.

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Blogger Aras said...

Obviously that's the episode when Marge goes to therapy. Post script completely unnecessary!

1:57 AM  
Blogger Trashcan said...

Well congrats. I don't know that i would have immediately recognized it if someone just said lowenstein... lowenstein to me. Although to be honest my simpsons memory is more incidental than anything. That is to say something will remind me of something funny from the simpsons, and i'll remember the line. But if someone just walked up to me and said hey what's the funny line in this episode, i may well not remember. I'm sure my knowledge is still far greater than the average person, but for obscure simpson trivia, i'm more likely to remember them by accident, rather than on purpose.

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Blogger Aras said...

also i saw that episode just a few weeks ago.

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