[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: A problem
- From: "Sharon Allbright" <sharlen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <d_fritsche@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:31:34 -0700
Good post Dave and I am also impressed you were able to write it after your
long, long day of travel to and from the Dublin match you judged Sunday.
Which by the way was great fun!
Sharon
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Fritsche" <d_fritsche@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 9:30 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] A problem
> I suspect that we may be forced to rethink everything we believe about
> locations for our nationals.
>
> Here's the problem as I see it. When heading out to the last board
> meeting, I boarded a turbo-prop plane in Reno, with a capacity of
> slightly less than a match book. The flight attendant gave a brief
> commercial about the new fuel efficient plane, telling us how green it
> was and how many gallons of fuel we were saving and how cool the
> planet would be by the time we landed, which, she failed to tell us,
> was going to be sometime in the next century.
>
> I was going to Milwaukee, but the flight took me first to Seattle (not
> quite in a direct line with Milwaukee) because it was a hub, from
> which I could then catch a plane to Chicago, and then to Milwaukee.
> The first leg of the flight on the lovely but slow turboprop was
> spacious enough for me to set, but not to get my legs into the seat
> area while still attached to my body. So I tucked them comfortably
> under my chin.... OK, you get the picture.
>
> The entire industry is going to slower, smaller planes with less cargo
> space and no place for human legs. They are also going fewer places,
> only taking you to their hub, then to someone else's hub who can get
> you to another airport where there might be a plane going in your
> direction. The era of convenience and customer service appears to be
> over in the driving frenzy to salvage some profitability from a travel
> industry that is headed for a General Motors bail out,- or is it bail
> down?
>
> And, all of this trip did not take me four hours to go across country
> because of the stops in airports waiting for the other mini-plane to
> cram us in. It took 12 hours, not including the time it took for them
> to finally find my luggage.
>
> The point is, once we experience this new phenomena of travel to get
> to a national in Juno, Arkansas, which has a wonderful show grounds,
> we are going to find a reaction. I don't think I am going to subject
> my dog to this ordeal. In fact, I will not be able to because the new
> little green objects they call airplanes will not be able to take a
> dog. So, we are going to be left with driving from home to a hub
> airport that has enough passengers to have a large enough plane to get
> us to another hub somewhere in the proximity of the nationals. Then we
> are going to have to drive again from there.
>
> How is this different than it always has been? We have always had to
> drive from the nearest airport to the show site, but now we will have
> to change planes more, find the more rare large planes and then forget
> it - there will be no planes taking dogs from the last hub so we will
> drive further, unless.....
>
> Unless we decide that the greater number of our constituency is best
> served by having the show at hub city sites, which will reduce our
> options for sites, limit the degree to which we can move around the
> nation to accommodate everyone at some time in the nationwide
> rotation. This is because there are now fewer airlines, fewer hubs,
> fewer flights that are more crowded and more small planes servicing
> areas that are not major hubs.
>
> It is bad news, and it is quite a change. SUV's will not be
> manufactured in our future and the same is already happening with
> airplanes. What is ideal may no longer be possible as the Yugo makes a
> comeback at the expense of our sport. I'd cry if I were not too tired
> and too darned old. I suspect we need to keep this a matter of
> discussion and see how to adjust our program and our expectations so
> that we can continue to enjoy the greatest breed on earth and the
> greatest show on earth, the GSDCA Nationals.
>
> Sorry for the length....
> Dave
>
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