What drives this is not marginaly profitable or marginaly not, but could an airline recover from a UM put in a hotel due to iregualar ops ever recover if some creep abducted and kiled the um? Who would the media blame the Hotel chain or the airline? I assume the risk is far greater than the reward, it just isn't that worth it!
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OK, I did'nt proof read my post, sorry.
All I am saying if you lost a kid and the kid was abducted or abused it would be horrific!
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A UM in a hotel is with a trusted employee, so the child is never entirely alone.
Feel any better now?
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Well, to get at the underlying theme of your question, the airline is responsible for the UM. Whether the media would partially blame the hotel or not is open to conjecture, but I suspect not unless it did something completely stupid like giving a copy of the room key to some guy wearing a ski mask.
So in a worst case situation, any marginal profit we may make from carrying UM's could be more than wiped out by one unfortunate incident.
Of course, any annual profit we make could be wiped out by one unfortunate crash, so maybe we should stop flying airplanes....
Jim
So in a worst case situation, any marginal profit we may make from carrying UM's could be more than wiped out by one unfortunate incident.
Of course, any annual profit we make could be wiped out by one unfortunate crash, so maybe we should stop flying airplanes....
Jim
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During the "great blizzard of the century", I was stuck on the tarmac in Pittsburgh for TWELVE hours in the back of an MD-80. When we were finally able to return to the terminal, there were thousands of people-wall to wall. It was impossible to get a taxi or a hotel. I saw UMs sleeping downstairs in the crew room and upstairs in the agent's break room.
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Yeah. I think it would suck. Is there some point that I'm missing here?
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Maybe we could just blame that little foray of his/her imagination into the macabre on the triple six day and maybe, oh, I don't know, a six pack? 😉 😀
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Wow!!! thousands of people in the Pittsburgh terminal? You sure are dating yourself! lol
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Twelve pack plus extra pharmaceutical goodies, perhaps.
