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As usual, your column was very insightful. But it seems like you fail to account for successful airlines from high wage, largely unionized countries. BA, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, JAL and others come to mind. And I think that I can still get cheaper flights on Ryan, Lauda Air or other European discount carriers than on most US lines. I wonder how much of the crunch the US airlines are in are not the result of unions or high fuel prices, but rotten service and incompetent management? For example, I don't think it was an accident that Southwest made the right call on hedging fuel prices while UAL and AA made the wrong one.
OK, I am off to the 11 hour SFO-FRA puddle jump. Keep up the good work.
This article is really stupid, uninformed, and idiotic tripe like most of the earlier posters said. Python, Ruby, and even PHP and Perl are languages that are as easy to learn, readily available and much more useful and instructional than BASIC ever was. All of them are actually preinstalled on Mac OS X, by the way.
But three years of trying to install a basic BASIC interpreter on a Mac? It took me 90 seconds. Google "OS X Basic programming language", download Chipmunk BASIC from http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/, open DMG, start command line version, type PRINT "HELLO".
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