02 October 2005

Another Casualty


Yet another airline has disappeared, going the way of Eastern, TWA, PanAm, Braniff, PSA and all the other once-successful companies that are now just boxes of memorabilia on eBay. A friend of mine said he enjoyed his TMA flight from Rockford, IL to Las Vegas last year. The price was fantastic ($69) but, as the major airlines are still learning, if you want to be a successful enterprise, you simply can't continue to charge less for your services than it costs you to provide them. This lesson is harder for airlines to learn than you'd think. Let's hope the majors get smart soon.

R.I.P., TMA.