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Part Two: Frank Lorenzo: The Man Who Ruined Air Travel

Behind the Bastards

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The Ugly Strike of Continental Airlines

The union with the most clout and thus the most power are the pilots. Because pilots made bank they had enough money that they were able to like draw funding from other pilots unions to fund their part of the strike. Continental gets fined like 400 grand because the FAA sees that they're not like They're breaking a bunch of rules basically But no planes crash from continental in this period. So it's kind of hard to like you know Yeah, really point the finger it would have helped him if some people had died is what i'd say yeah.

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