American Airlines hit with largest-ever fine for tarmac delays, but it's still only $700 per passenger

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Thankfully the new ‘Tarmac Regulatory Recovery Surcharge’ should fix the balance sheet right up; telco style!

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I guess that’s yet another way to redistribute PPP funds!

(Or claw them back.)

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American Airlines blames the weather.

Weather having been invented in 2018, leaving AA completely and understandably unprepared for its existence.

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“Them” meaning AA or the passengers?

“Split” meaning the government pays half? That’s a weird way to fine a company.

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No, it means that the passengers only get 350 each, and the government gets a little over 2M.

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I read this depressing and accurate post on how airlines are symptomatic of a five or more to one ratio of coercion versus care/service in their allocation of resources:

It’s lucky that we are going to stop subsidising these parasites because without massive subsidies from appetite to arsehole the air travel industry is as unsustainable economically as it is environmentally.

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