[PRCo] Sometimes we get it right...

[Dwight Long]

Fred

I think the folks that preserved the Queen Mary (the one in Long Beach) are doing ok with that.  Whether the same would fly in Philadelphia is a whole nother question. And the United States has been rusting there so long that it would probably be prohibitively expensive to restore her even just for display and tours.

Dwight

From: John Swindler 
Sent: Thursday, 15 May, 2014 08:09
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Sometimes we get it right...

 
New passenger ships are built every year, and some appear on occasional trans-Atlantic trips.  Cunard's Queen Mary 2 offers sailings between Southampton and New York at prices that sometime dip under $1,000 per person.  That's competitive with the airline rate.
 
Cunard is now owned by Carnival.  And there is probably a sign posted at the ship hiring office:  "Americans not wanted".  Fred's article says it all:  our government wants to dictate labor rates, but a multinational company can look elsewhere.  That's why cruise ships make sure they visit at least one foreign port on a cruise - to avoid US minimum wage rates.  
 
There's still steerage class on the trans-Atlantic route.  Today it's called Economy class on an airline.  
 
 

 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 17:36:54 -0400
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Sometimes we get it right...
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> Sometimes, perhaps by accident or inertia, we get it right.   While other countries were mistakenly building ships that would be empty only a dozen years later after Boeing introduced the 707 jet, we claimed we had no money….
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> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121%2C3739461
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> Oh well.   We still have the SS United States sitting in a dock with dreamers thinking you can preserve a ship for tourist visitors.   
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