Re: allocation vs freedom
Robert J Abbot (rabbot@juno.com)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:30:22 EDT
> It's more reasonable to compare
>people on the roster of private trips (only one of whom was on the
waiting
>list) with commercial passengers. Many of these people did not "wait"
any
>more than a commercial passenger. Someone with a permit called them up
>and
>said "wanna go on a river trip?," and they said yes. So, while the
leader
>may have experienced anguish waiting for ten years for his or her permit
to
>come up, a large proportion of the actual group on the private trip
>experienced none and did less planning and organizing and waiting than
>the
>commercial passenger who had to book a trip a year in advance. If you
>really want to dump commercial peeps and privates in the same pool and
>have
>them follow the same rules, it seems only fair to insist then that every
>person on the private roster be on the waiting list, not just the
leaders.
>If privates want to have their wait as short as a commercial peep's
wait,
>then they should organize their trip that far in advance (3.6 years or
>whatever) and have everybody on the trip be on the list. There would be
the
>same options for cancellations that commercial passengers have, which
>probably means at some point people have to forfeit a deposit.
Judy,
I am guessing the average size of a private trip is at least 10 what you
propose would lengthen the wait list by a factor of ten! I also believe
if you participate in two trips while you are on the list you are
automatically bumped off. Therefore The wait list would grow to about 65
years. In addition to the recently 1500% increase in launch fees we
would now have a !5,000% increase. Finally all that money would probably
go to waste since most privates on the list would be DEAD before they
would get a trip.
You should also know that I respond to your posting with a smile on my
face. Something that this medium does not allow us to display.
Keep thinking on this subject!
Cheers
r
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