{"id":6634,"date":"2012-11-01T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2012-11-01T00:57:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:57:47","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-american-airline-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/whatever-happened-to-the-american-airline-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To The American Airline Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102912_0229_WhateverHap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Brancatelli had a simple question: Why does airline travel today stink? He went through a 78 page report released by the department of transportation that had the answer to the question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airline travel has become expensive because of rapidly rising fuel costs.<\/li>\n<li>Air travel has also become more uncomfortable because airlines have cut the number of individual flights, so that more seats are filled on each plane.<\/li>\n<li>Aircrafts have become smaller. Flights on twin aisle planes \u2013 the largest type available \u2013 have gone down by 44%.<\/li>\n<li>Air service has become more inconsistent because the company you actually buy the tickets from usually doesn&#8217;t operate the aircraft. United Airlines is the worst offender, with 68% of its flights being operated by third parties.<\/li>\n<li>Service in general has declined because the number of employees have been cut by 20% since 2000, and each employee is paid less than they used to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the problems that the TSA has created for travellers, and how much money flight attendants can expect to make, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/bizjournals\/blog\/seat2B\/2012\/10\/government-offers-air-travel-report.html?page=all\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/bizjournals\/blog\/seat2B\/2012\/10\/government-offers-air-travel-report.html?page=all\">The Business Journals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/10\/further-assorted-links-4.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Brancatelli had a simple question: Why does airline travel today stink? He went through a 78 page report released by the department of transportation that had the answer to the question: Airline travel has become expensive because of rapidly rising fuel costs. Air travel has also become more uncomfortable because airlines have cut the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102912_0229_WhateverHap1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}