{"id":574,"date":"2006-12-15T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/?p=574"},"modified":"2006-12-15T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T17:25:18","slug":"dominant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/12\/15\/dominant\/","title":{"rendered":"dominant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures like <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=bloomington,+mn&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=16&#038;ll=44.882345,-93.20524&#038;spn=0.008377,0.021093&#038;t=h&#038;om=1\"> this one<\/a> make me realise how completely fucked up the airline industry got with the hub mentality. There&#8217;s no real competition here, as you can plainly see one airline dominates the entire field. Wanna leave Minnesota? Who ya gonna call?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like that in any other hub (like, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/gallery2\/v\/Trips\/denver\/CIMG0075.JPG.html\" title=\"Untied everywhere\">Denver<\/a>), and really limits your available choices. Some of the bigger airports in places like NYC, LHR, and LAX are a lot better, and it shows as I can fly to London for a heck of a lot less money than Minnesota (although the odds of me wanting to pay to go to minne-fucking-apolis are slim, so in my case it&#8217;s a non-issue).<\/p>\n<p> That leads to all the fun that comes with a monopoly, and for some reason our gummints continue to think that this is behaviour that should be publicly bailed out. Like any dominitrix, they&#8217;ve got you by the short and curlies, and you pay for the pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Whee.<\/p>\n<p>(NB: this pic is pretty old. Northwest changed their livery a couple years bag, so a more recent photo probably wouldn&#8217;t illustrate the point of who&#8217;s #1 in MN as much)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures like this one make me realise how completely fucked up the airline industry got with the hub mentality. There&#8217;s no real competition here, as you can plainly see one airline dominates the entire field. Wanna leave Minnesota? Who ya gonna call? It&#8217;s like that in any other hub (like, say, Denver), and really limits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,13,23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah","category-general","category-good-to-know","category-pics","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}