The Goat Pen

Venture north to Flagstaff and Sedona. Alot nicer up there.

Sedona definitely

It’s work. I am here at a conference hotel with 180 people, none of who are wearing masks, and I don’t have a car or time to go anywhere.

So in short, you're in Hell...

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:51 am So in short, you're in Hell...

the food sucks too

You were expecting a 3 star Michelin chef in hell??

still at this parking lot in the middle of nowhere.

last night we had "Nashville Hot Chicken" and Biscuits

this is crap

well I'm back home

not feeling great.

came home to a furnace not working, so feeling like shit, I had to work on that thing all night, but we have heat again.

I"m not traveling again for a long time.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/us/south ... index.html

When travelling, be ready to break up fights at airports

I usually fly my daughter home over thanksgiving. This time we decided she'd drive. I just think travel will be a nightmare , moreso than it normally is over Thanksgiving.

Chickens

Daughter is flying down on Allegiant from Boston for Thanksgiving....What could go wrong?

Same with me flying to Vegas on Frontier in December...

sardis wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:16 pm Daughter is flying down on Allegiant from Boston for Thanksgiving....What could go wrong?

Same with me flying to Vegas on Frontier in December...

The biggest risk on these two carriers is they have no crew. With the labor shortage and flight attendants/pilots bolting from the low cost carriers to the majors the first chance they get, you have to hope that Allegiant and Frontier actually have crew available. AND you have to hope that the pilots haven't burned burned all their hours for 2021. This has almost ended Spirit airlines.

I wish you were flying on a Frontier flight with no crew...

IB. The Batman of air travel.

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:37 pm IB. The Batman of air travel.

The airline industry (given how regulated and how "well formed" the work is) is an almost PERFECT example of what happens with a pure supply-and-demand based business, operating in an economy with raw capitalism with regards to labor, productivity, and collective bargaining. You want to prevent your pilots from quitting? Let them form a union and let them get seniority. Then (once they are Captain and high enough on the seniority list) they will never quit. Of course, they may bankrupt you (ala Eastern Airlines in 1991) but, fuck it. You need crew.

To think, it was even MORE regulated back in the day than it is now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

I get PTSD type symptoms watching this video

I can't tell you how many Saturday mornings I was jolted out of bed with "GET YOUR WORK CLOTHES ON"