Big U.S. airlines and Trump Treasury 'reach deal in principle on government aid' — reports

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/14/big-u-s-airlines-and-trump-tr.html

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F the airlines. I’m traveling in my car until there is a vaccine. Social Distance Seating is going to cost a fortune.

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I wonder it it’ll be “here’s a fuckton of cash - good luck, and let us know when you need some more!” or “here’s a fuckton of cash, now hand over the pink slips.”

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The airlines are (were?) an important piece of U.S. infrastructure. Fine.

Now make sure that every pilot, mechanic, and other support employees are being paid at the same level of corporate management since the managers are simply support employees, too.

And tell every TSA screener that they need to re-tool to do something useful because we’re getting rid of that ridiculousness that they see as easy jobs. 9/11 has been proven to be a one-off, and last I checked Covid seems to be a more important thing to deal with then having hundreds of people wait 2 feet away from each other to pay their baggage fees before hitting the porno-scanners.

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I say only on the agreement of no more baggage fees, change fees or seating fees!!

Fuck these guys that they can’t survive more than a month on the billions in cash they’ve raked in over the years from all the bullshit fees they charge.

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Probably nothing so obvious. Probably just a nice share transfer to Trump Emolument Inc.

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Until N95 masks return to being easily obtained commoditites, flying with SCUBA tanks/masks is gonna be surprisingly popular.

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But then where else will I get my radiation fix? I’ve been banned from the cyclotron.

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Why none. They are the party of small government.

And with recirculated air, not worth the money.

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Next week they’re gonna be out buying back shares again. Just wait.

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You know what. I think that too. So let me check those Financials he promised to reveal very soon, very soon. Hmm… Guess it hasn’t been long enough?

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Sooooo not surprised.

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