Comments on: Airline lobbying: so where’s the money going? http://www.elliott.org/blog/airline-lobbying-so-wheres-the-money-going/ Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott's site. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Wright http://www.elliott.org/blog/airline-lobbying-so-wheres-the-money-going/comment-page-1/#comment-43320 Ken Wright Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:12:58 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=8595#comment-43320 If you have proof of airline money's influence on FlyersRights.org, please publish it. I'm a member, and I know that we operate on the financial edge each and every day. Yet, the DOT ruling is now in place, with further DOT action open for comment right now. Does that not make our efforts credible? If you have proof of airline money’s influence on FlyersRights.org, please publish it. I’m a member, and I know that we operate on the financial edge each and every day. Yet, the DOT ruling is now in place, with further DOT action open for comment right now. Does that not make our efforts credible?

]]> By: Bill Bell http://www.elliott.org/blog/airline-lobbying-so-wheres-the-money-going/comment-page-1/#comment-24621 Bill Bell Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:03:07 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=8595#comment-24621 The public should be informed as to which Congressmen are for consumers and which aren't. The public should be informed as to which Congressmen are for consumers and which aren’t.

]]> By: Robert Yeager http://www.elliott.org/blog/airline-lobbying-so-wheres-the-money-going/comment-page-1/#comment-24580 Robert Yeager Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:40:02 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=8595#comment-24580 Anyone who believes there are any "rights" for travellers is living in a fool's world. The airlines are so de-regulated they have a strangle hold on the passengers and run rough-shod over any adverse query to suggest they should play "nice" with their clients. Too many instances have the flight crew in total "KGB" control of every aspect of the flying process. Being a "loyal" frequent flyer means nothing anymore. I could cite many personal experiences with the frequent flyer "disloyalty" but it would take pages. Until some meaning and agressive steps are taken by FAA or DOT, we passengers are going to get further smothered by the airlines "take-it-or-leave" policy making. What is equally annoying is to have the airline CEO's writing editorials in their corporate rags that make it sound like they are really interested in what we have to say about the shoddy treatment. Anyone who believes there are any “rights” for travellers is living in a fool’s world. The airlines are so de-regulated they have a strangle hold on the passengers and run rough-shod over any adverse query to suggest they should play “nice” with their clients.

Too many instances have the flight crew in total “KGB” control of every aspect of the flying process. Being a “loyal” frequent flyer means nothing anymore. I could cite many personal experiences with the frequent flyer “disloyalty” but it would take pages.

Until some meaning and agressive steps are taken by FAA or DOT, we passengers are going to get further smothered by the airlines “take-it-or-leave” policy making.

What is equally annoying is to have the airline CEO’s writing editorials in their corporate rags that make it sound like they are really interested in what we have to say about the shoddy treatment.

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