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boutons_deux
11-03-2013, 10:43 AM
works as well as not regulating the derivatives market and finance in general

Skyway Robbery: 6 Ways the Out-of-Control Airline Industry Is Ripping Off America

High-fives are happening on Wall Street. Airlines are making giant profits again, record-breaking (http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/how-airlines-are-nickel-diming-their-way-record-revenue-8C11488196) profits! The days of bankruptcies, which peaked between 2001 and 2008, may soon be a memory.

Have bold thinking, dramatic innovation and better service turned things around? Not exactly.

Sky-high profits are coming at the expense of the taxpayers, airline workers, and the traveling public, particularly in North America, where carriers like Spirit Airlines have been adding fees in a nickel-and-diming rampage.

It’s ugly up there, and it’s likely to get uglier.

Let’s take a look at what is turning into a nightmare in the sky.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/airline-rip-offs

As always, the captalist's objective:

the shittiest possible product for the highest possible price (a strategy always enabled by another objective: total monopoly, local monopoly, and/or cartelization)