This is a sad commentary on Corporate Responsibility...But should come as no surprise! These Corporations need the additional revenue to pay for their Lobbying Costs and ridiculous CEO Annual Salary and Benefits!
Definitely no suprise here. Our nation's warriors are appreciated only when the masses feel threatened and then nothing is too good for those who put themselves in harms way. Real Americans are vanishing at an alarming rate and only a matter of time before this country implodes. The older I get the more cynical I get about the people that comprise our nation.
We have have gone so long, doing so much, with so little, now we can do anything with nothing.
I have to agree with the Chief. People today are to into themselves to care about the troops. Besides other veterans and family members , few support or donate to the troops. Its a greedy nation we live in, and being a soldier is not fashionable, its better to make it in civilian life, you can make more. That is the general attitude. You see it all the time, people say we support the troops, not the mission, but you cannot seperate the two, its the troops on the mission.
Yes, sad but true. My grandson just escaped from the great sandbox. He's one of the lucky ones that can come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Of course he could choose one or the other, but why should he have to. His country and family are the most important things in his young life. So he chooses both. We never know when it will be time to say goodbye to someone, So make the most of life. Oh by the way, his mother is unemployed and can't help him out because she has medical bills up the whazoo. I will give him a few hundred, but that only dents it. I was shocked when my daughter told me that people can fight for their country, but that same country won't pay, at the least, for ONE trip home after service in war.
I don't know if the airlines ever gave a military discount. When I was in we always got standby tickets and bought them cheaper and usually a few months ahead of time. But they could have had a discount then, I guess. They sure should have had a discount because we didn't make any money back in 1966. But standby often meant waiting 15-20 hours at the airport to get a flight.
The military should have priority for airline tickets, not the other way around. But what someone said is true: if you don't have a relative in the military, chances are you don't care. America hasn't been united for years.
It is sad, but what can you expect when from the beginnings of this war the nation has been told to go about business as usual? This has meant that all the burden has been borne by the men and women of the armed forces!
It may, or may not be too late, but it is clear that a national effort to support the troops (not necessarily the war)is needed, and has been needed since 2002!
A weekend ago, the wife and I held a sale of patriotic wares at the local American Legion along with other crafters. The sale was open to the public and although the sale was alright, it wasn't spectacular. I use the proceeds to send care packages and I advertised this fact. What is happening is that people are associating the war with troop support. In Michigan though we also are in a financial depression. Our illustrious governor has ran our state right into the ground. So it's hard to say which is the reason.
everybody was for the war early on... many pitched in, helped out the troops and such. Now, with the typical American attention span being 1.3 seconds, the troops are being forgotten. They are still hundreds of thousands of troops over figting wars for us and people are letting fade like they just want it to go away.
I've long felt that the only ones REALLY at war are the soldiers over there and their families over here. The rest of us are almost totally uninvolved. That's my only beef with the administration. We all needed to be involved in this thing, just like in WWII.
This is a sad commentary on Corporate Responsibility...But should come as no surprise! These Corporations need the additional revenue to pay for their Lobbying Costs and ridiculous CEO Annual Salary and Benefits!
I've been corrected MANY a times (and days) when I said similar.
And it was mainly with, "Corporations have responsibilities to the Shareholders and to Make a Profit" only.
Under those conditions, I had difficulty to make the case you (and I) are trying to make?
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SouthWest airlines still offers a Military discount, and are very supportive to the military, personally I only fly with them when I go to a place in that they fly.
I've never used a military discount because the price will not be any less than priceline.com name your price. Delta forces you to go to the airport to reserve it if you want the discount. I read on a message board, some dumb liberal complaining about the war AND the "war-mongering US soldiers", so it's no surprise to me that we are not in the same world anymore, while liberals like him sit at his computer all day because of us.
She should have called jet express or continental. My son is coming home for christ mas for $328.00 round trip. Ft.lewis to Kansas City. I hope he enjoy's the visit.I never got home For any holidays for nearly four years while I was in the navy.
"We're at war, but only if you've got someone in the military. If you're not touched by it, it's not your every day."
Bottom line: if business can't make a profit, why bother to help our troops when a discount could surely help them travel home? There are few exceptions to that rule, & I make sure that those businesses get my support. The airline industry has been screwing with the military forever (those "discounted flights" that are more expensive than regular coach), & this comes at no surprise.
Supporting our troops is more than putting a yellow ribbon magnet/"We support the Troops" magnet on your SUV
The airline industry has been screwing with the military forever (those "discounted flights" that are more expensive than regular coach), & this comes at no surprise.
That is exactly the point I was making. It was cheaper to buy a regular ticket than to request a military discount. The premise that the discounts are fading, IMHO is not really news because there wasn't really a discount to begin with. Granted, some do offer true discounts, but they don't fly everywhere.
I just tried, emphasis on try, to call usairways to let them know how I felt I have cross posted this article on other military related websites.
guess what.. first there is no phone number on thier website. When I called reservations to get the number I had to get mad because the phillipino kept trying to book me a flight even though I tried to tell her that I wanted the cust. serv. #.. when I got the number guess what they refuse to answer and sent one back to the email form on the website..
I will NEVER fly usairways again.. period..
what we need to do as military/family/supporters is create such a ruckus that the airlines will be embarassed into providing ongoing discounts for our active duty military..
I might suggest that the GREAT NEWS MEDIA of our country has helped in this situation. They have managed to make "fun" of our President, and our country to the point that NOBODY wants to step forward and say "ENOUGH". For those of us that were in the Vietnam Era, we have seen this happen before. The American population is becoming a disgrace to the world and to ourselves and in turn are degrading our military people that still believe in our country. It is very sad when the American Press Corp takes a stand that degrades our country, our leadership, and promotes DOOOOO GOODERS over the real American people. For an industry to deprive young military people in the ability to get home for the HOLIDAYS is a disgrace, especially when their government subsidized million dollar aircraft will operate with empty seats to about every destination in the United States. Welcome to a country that has elected official at ALL levels of government who are elected by a MAJORITY OF THE MINORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE that have the right to vote and DON"T AND BELIEVE THE NEWS MEDIA, BOTH ELECTRONIC AND PRINTED. American people - stand up, speakup, and take your counry back and VOTE. Airfare's are just a small part of the problem facing out nation today. It is a disgrace that our military personnel are discriminated against in not only this but other actions. THE MILITAY IS AT WAR, MOST OF THE LEGISLATORS ARE NOT, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE AT THE MALL. GOD BELSS AMERICA - WE NEED IT.
I would not call the discounts for airfare totally gone. They have just moved to other areas. For example, some airlines will not charge overweight fees to military personnel. Some airlines will upgrade your ticket for free depending on if there are free seats to upgrade to. I know at Raliegh (RDU) every kiosk, fast food joint offer military and police, emt, firefighter discounts. And generally speaking all military personnel are the most courteous customers that an airline could have, that is why they go out of there way (if they can) to accomidate our service members. Experiences may vary, just going off of what I have seen and experienced first hand.
