Thursday, October 05, 2006

Delta reaches Agreement with Retirees, no word on if in-flight refreshments will return !

Delta airlines reached an agreement or settlement on the benefits owed to its non-pilots retirees. Estimated to save the airline, which is still in chapter 11 bankruptcy, some 50 million annually. This may and hopefully will have a positve effect on consumers. Since Delta is know, at least for the moment, out of court and saving money, perhaps ticket prices will fall and /or the nice in-flight snacks and refreshements will return. I know this is somewhat exagerrated, however air-travel has become quite expensive, as various airliners (headlined by Delta) have been losing money for many years and coupled with the high cost of oil/ fuel, consumers have felt a steady hike in ticket prices. This is especially true when flying home for holidays, average roundtrip flights from say, Akron to Pensacola will cost about 200 + dollars. The cost of flying being the main reason I for one will be staying here at MC for Fall break and possibly Thanksgiving. As 100 dollars to fly home to spend maybe three days then another 100 dollars to fly back to Marietta does not always outwiegh the benefits of eating turkey and overdosing on tryptophan.

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