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Old 11-18-08, 01:08 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Re: Should the US Government (Taxpayers) Bail Out the Big Three?

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Originally Posted by Scott Calabro View Post
No.

Remember TWA, Eastern, Pan American, Braniff, Business Express and the like?

They all went By By.

Funny, we can still fly on an airline too!

Now we have better airlines like Southwest, Jet Blue, Virgin etc.

My .02

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Except American, Delta, United and US Air seemed to get free handouts from the
government all of the time to keep them afloat after the aforementioned
airlines went out of business. And yet Amtrak funding gets cut and threatened to
be eliminated completely on a regular basis.

Ian
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