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Now its good taste that is being mangled

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Airlines, Competition

Not content to mangle both words and figures, we did not have to wait long to see what else would be in the US legacy carriers’ crosshairs.  Good taste.  Manners are for wimps, apparently.  Complaining about the alleged subsidies the Gulf carriers receive, America’s legacy airlines are on a media offensive.  It is clearly not a charm offensive.  It is offensive and it is in the media, so let’s stick to calling it a media offensive.  The airlines’ CEOs have fanned out and are talking to anyone that will listen. Speaking on CNN the Delta CEO, Richard Anderson, brushed aside the counter-claim that America’s Chapter 11 legislation was an unfair advantage by saying that they would not have needed to use if but for the 9/11 attacks, and they came from Arabia, and the UAE has the word Arab in it, and gosh, the other nasty airline is from the Arabian Gulf, and thus, it was only fair.  I can only hope that Mr Anderson’s mother did not see the interview, because it is hard to believe that she would have brought her son up to behave like that. It is almost impossible to know where to start on this. 

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