Michael Boyd An Apologist-Hack for the Airline Industry and "Bureaucrats" and the Iceland Volcano

During a 4/21/10; CBS interview of Michael Boyd of the Boyd Group, a self-styled expert on Commercial Aviation and Airline practices on the recent disruption of Airline services by the eruptions of the Iceland Volcano.

Michael Boyd blames and put the onus of the disruptions of services and ensuing chaos of millions of Airline travelers stranded globally on "Bureaucrats".  Boyd argued that the Bureaucrats of United Kingdom's air traffic, ignorant to the intricacies of running the Airline Industry acted recklessly by shutting down air space which in turn has hit the Airline Industry's bottom line to the tune of appx. $1.2 billion.

Boyd's gambit point was an airline will never place it's airplanes and passengers in a dangerous and life threatening situation.  This argument is patently false, misleading, deceptive and insidious.  The Airline Industry is on record with it's practices that place profits at the expense of safety and commonsensical convenience of it's passengers.  It is profitable for an airline to simply pay the fine and damage awards against it's practices when, plane crashes and disasters happen than spend the amount required to improve airline safety.

As Michael Boyd was being an Apologist-Hack for the Airline Industry on CBS.  It was being reported that upon the resumption and commencement of flights, those hapless travelers who had been stranded at airports globally would retreat to the back of the line and newly bought ticket-holders would receive preferential treatment.  Which in plain passenger speak means the airlines need cash on hand.  Those stranded passengers who having spent money already and were waiting on seating or were in connecting flight transit will have to wait and be inconvenienced for another number of days till it becomes ethically necessary to accommodate them on planes.

this is the omnipotence and omniscience of the Airline Industry to which Michael Boyd Apologist-Hack for the Airline Industry argues should not be regulated nor dictated to by responsible governance.

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