They may be some consequences however. first off, the aircraft which support fire suppression in California and the west are general aviation airports. So, more acres and more homes burn because these aircraft fly further to refuel and deal with delays at the major airports.

All flights must depart from airline service airports – that might just add to the delays as the next generation of pilots trains at airports amidst the 737′s and airline jets. You don’t mind sitting at the end of the runway for that 100mph Cessna to land for the third time in the last h hour, do you?

Anyone need an organ transplant or medevac flight? These usually land at general aviation airports because they are faster and easier to get in and our of. You don’t REALLY need that kidney or heart fast, do you? It can wait its turn at the large airline airports that are over scheduled and busy and maybe even get canceled or held on the tarmac for 7 hours – you can live with a stale heart, right?

Air freight. Hey – its ok that all the air freight ALSO goes into airline service airports? Right? Dozens and dozens of more flights into airline airports. Oh, you don’t have an airline airport near you? Well, then you can’t get parts, checks, tickets or anything else overnight since if you are a 4 hour drive from an airline airport then too bad. Its too far to run trucks back and forth economically.

Does ANYONE understand that ALL this is class warfare? As usual the press creates a hit piece on someone or some industry with ZERO effort to explain the consequences of their ‘oh how horrible this all is for the average person, someone else is getting something you don’t have’ journalism.

The press, over and over again, continues to display that, like police, there is an intelligence range for their profession. . . remember that those ‘rich’ people you are trying to get to pay more, already probably pay alot more in taxes than you do. In fact, 3% of the people pay 90% of the income taxes to the federal government. You are going to tell them that they can’t own an airplane now? Fair is fair – lets have YOU pay 45% of your income to the federal government in 2009 – like they do. See how you feel.

When the cruise lines added the premium restaurants, for example, they didn’t have those before. They didn’t take away any of the food already included or downgrade the quality of the main restaurants; they just added something even better than they had and charged for that. There are other things that people buy on a cruise that they have always charged for, such as drinks or shore excursions.

The airlines, on the other hand, are just charging for things they used to include in the price. They then neither decreased the price of the original product nor added any value to what they were charging extra for. That model is quite different from what the cruise lines are doing.