But as the Internet made fare comparison easier, airlines began dropping the Saturday night rule, and business travelers overwhelmingly switched from expensive fully refundable fares.
There is an independently demonstrated, profitable, quick and easy internal airline path to achieve shared airline and customer goals: operational excellence, a system-driven solution to achieve 85% A0, less than 3% daily A0 standard deviation, 8-to-10-minute scheduled block/gate time reduction, reduced costs, reduced fuel burn and emissions, and improved quality and revenue.
But if you have a secure income and want to benefit from a country with widespread English, easy budget airline access to and from the UK's regional airports, plus houses for sale at 1990s prices, it appears compelling.
The vote cam after a major change in federal law this year making it easier for airline workers to unionize.
The Air Transport Association of America, an industry group, said it was unfair to change the rule on forming unions without also making it easier for airline workers to decertify a union.
This should be relatively easy for airlines to deliver, especially as they could probably charge a lot for them: market segmentation and price differentiation are easier to do on the ground than in the air.
The tale, like so much in Washington, is a convoluted one, but it comes down to this: Last year, the National Mediation Board changed a rule to make it easier for airline and railroad workers to unionize with a straight majority vote.
But this is not so easy for airlines, hemmed in as they are by national ownership rules and rigid international regulation of routes.As they strive to become leaner, America's airlines are retreating to their strongholds in the hub airports they dominate, such as Dallas-Fort Worth (American) and Atlanta (Delta).
Getting there is easy: budget airlines fly to Girona, where you can pick up a hire car and within an hour be flat out on one of the golden beaches, such as Sa Tuna and Sa Riera, that lie beneath hills dotted with architect-designed houses, or settled with a glass of wine at a stellar restaurant, such as Sa Rascassa, where I enjoyed my fairy-lit meal of lobster.
This makes it easy for airlines to coordinate their fares and keep them high -- resulting in another upward redistribution.
