For too long state and federal officials have coddled airlines and given into their every request regardless of the effect on consumbers. From the ridiculous Wright Amendment, to Saint Louis and Missouri’s coddling of they dying TWA, to the Kansas City gate disaster, big airlines have received benefits when their problem was poor management. The Bush administration has demonstrated one of those few benefits for those periods when Republican administrations are safe, legal and rare by declinining United Airlines request for federal loans. Jackson is complaing along with the unions, but if United and the other large carriers aren’t forced to deal with their inefficiency, consumers will be hurt again.
