So, once again David Greising thinks he knows the airline industry, with his support of the United Airlines-US Airways merger mania. I, too, think it would be great to have a minority-operated airline. But, unlike Mr. Greising, I fail to see why airline travelers across this great country should be saddled with a monopoly unlike any in history, just so that Robert Johnson of BET can experiment with running a business that many, with much better qualifications to do so than he has, have failed to do.
The airline industry’s landscape is littered with the carcasses of established and start-up airlines all promising better times, service, etc. I should know; as a pilot for Midway Airlines, I got to experience the self-destruction up front and in person.
In the end, I believe that DC Air will fail, the merger of United-US Air will be troubled but succeed, and DC Air will simply fly away into the history books as nothing more than a trump card put on the table by Steve Wolf to play the race card. He knows it and Congress should recognize it as nothing more than a smokescreen to get his merger through the hands of the Department of Justice.
