[michaelochurch]

Yeah, right. Airline executives actually enjoy how much they suck at their jobs. This is an industry known for volatile, extremely high prices except on, perhaps, 3 routes and terrible service, and it still needs to be bailed out, like clockwork, every 5 years or so.

It's the worst in the U.S. We get the double joy of paying Virgin prices and getting RyanAir service.

As soon as they started charging for fucking checked baggage it was obvious that, yep, these assholes just like seeing how shitty a job they can get away with. Fuckers are trolling us, that's all. They're a real-world version of this, from Louis CK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XiA4U_XsE#t=1m7s).

The only thing that will "reinvent" this crap-ass industry is outright obsolescence. I'd rather see work on maglev trains and in-ocean tunnels than any faith put in these assholes.

[prodigal_erik]

I found http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines a pretty compelling explanation about why airlines have to go to such extremes in price discrimination as to be despised by customers, and yet continually go bankrupt.