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The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

Or, alternately, it is corporate virtue signaling.

If it were really a financial decision, then they would have done it quietly and at a different time.
 
sevenhelmet said:
It must be a game of rates between ATL and the NYC airports. ATL might be the airline's hub, but I'll bet more passenger revenue comes from up North...

Interesting business risk decision.
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This is an interesting point but it is missing something. The airlines are making a business decision based on what they view as the totality of social media. In their minds the "good news" will outweigh the temporary pain. This is the point where the power of social media finds its limits or finds success. Nothing is more true today than the old saying "All politics are local." The governor of Georgia (a republican) wants Delta to be happy but is equally aware that they are not leaving Atlanta. The state house wants to pull the tax break from Delta as a punishment. In the end their bill will pass and the governor will have a decision to make. His deciding markers will have nothing, nothing to do with economics - they will be -

1. He want to keep his job as governor. He will pass the bill and Delta loses out on a $50 million tax break (which they can afford).
2. He has greater (national) ambitions. He will veto the bill and applaud his own bravery for doing what is "right" for Georgia.

Politicians don't feel pressure from social media unless that pressure is coming directly from those people who vote for them. Most of the state reps in Georgia don't care what Facebook or Twitter says about them, they care about votes. In the end I find it a non-event with reference to business. Delta wants to look good in the eyes of the nation for a few minutes (until they kick grandma and her support chicken off a flight) and Georgia politicians want to look good for their constituents. The world goes round and round.
 
HackerF15E said:
Or, alternately, it is corporate virtue signaling.

If it were really a financial decision, then they would have done it quietly and at a different time.
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Maybe in Delta's case...but United had an employee's daughter get gunned down at school, so my guess is that had something to do with it.
 
Not sure if it's a fire or compressor stalls. Compressor stalls will have "pops" of flame like that.
 
HAL Pilot said:
Not sure if it's a fire or compressor stalls. Compressor stalls will have "pops" of flame like that.
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Yeah at first I thought it was just a huge plume of flames. There’s a video of it, it is was in fact a series of pops of flame like a compressor stall. Not that I’d ever SPECULATE about something that happened involving an airplane.
 
huggyu2 said:
I'd guess that United has had employee's kids die while driving and texting... but I don't see UAL publicly breaking their relationship with Apple products.
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Well Apple is not actively lobbying to prevent anything and everything to do with texting and driving. They don’t block legislation that prohibits the CDC from studying the effects of texting and driving, and phones are not designed to kill people, so there’s that
 
It may be virtue signaling, but when it comes down to a lot of bad press vs. a couple extra tickets from the discount program, it probably wasn't much of a choice.

As far as the LtGov...changing a government decision because an official doesn't like a market decision...sounds like "big government" to me.
 
phrogdriver said:
It may be virtue signaling, but when it comes down to a lot of bad press vs. a couple extra tickets from the discount program, it probably wasn't much of a choice.

As far as the LtGov...changing a government decision because an official doesn't like a market decision...sounds like "big government" to me.
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It’s not big guvernment when the right does it.
 
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