And so it begins... mergers.

[Jmoney]

Hmmm....

You know you're making fun of Breast Cancer Awareness by using that plane in your avatar, Tanker Clown?

It would seem that the more appropriate question here would be: "who the hell cares?"

-Just Damn....

 

[General Lee]

Southwest and AirTran must not operate during the "slow Winter quarter." They must need international routes if they want awsome winter quarters like Delta.

What do they not have that we have a lot of? Answer: RJs. We are now starting to park unprofitable RJs on routes that do not fill up during the slower winter months. Read the article I posted about it. It certainly will help when we need it most. But, the LCCs will see a decline here on the domestic market too, and they are not doing great themselves right now. Southwest is hedged well, and if they weren't they would be showing a loss I bet. Did you read about their shuffle of flights to find more revenue? They removed 40 current flights (including 10 from OAK) and then added 49 (17 in DEN) to find better revenue. Airlines will have to continue to do that to find a profit.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[dtfl]

Pretty similar to a DC-9 I suppose....Two throttles, a landing gear lever,...I got it !!!

Now Gen, will we NWA'ers get a 10% RAISE?
....THATS THE BIG QUESTION ?

Or will we just have to quietly go back to wearing our hats ?

WAIT..wait...they have autothrottles, a crappy AFCS and some glass. Now you got it.
So...let's make a deal...you get to fly the -88s if you can help us bring the Asian FAs in with the airframes?????!?!??! Deal?

 

[waveflyer]

all these merger talks just got me remindin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKkuJVy2YA&feature=related

33 VP's making $200k and he can't figure out what they do- sound like any airline you work for?


mergers are another reason we should have a national list-- wouldn't it be nice not to give a damn about what these companies do?

 

[spinproof]

Doug's gonna end up buying NWA for US, CAL will buy UAL and DAL will be holding an empty bag.

...and the General will be caterwauling and gnashing his teeth and calling on Oberstar to destroy them all and make ATL the center of the universe!

 

[WickedPissa]

USAirways/Northwest. No furloughs. Can Mesa. Shed off other 50 seat carriers. Fly more 190 type aircraft at the majors instead. Just a thought.

 

[737 Pylt]

You know you're making fun of Breast Cancer Awareness by using that plane in your avatar, Tanker Clown?

How can ass clown think of anything....You need a brain to think. He's too busy worrying about his future with mesa because his stellar 1800+ hours over 20 years makes him about as comptetive as.......Well, nobody!:laugh:

737

 

[Mr.B]

A DL and NWA combo will be a power house. We will hit Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America---all with tons of service. Our domestic hubs will be extensive, and the feed potential to those higher yield fares for businessmen will be huge.


So, how will Airtran and Southwest look together? A corndog 717? That will be great to see.... Maybe it will serve LBB from ATL nonstop?


Bye Bye--General Lee

You know, the airline brass loves to see guys like you spinning around like a lopsided top trying to speculate about the nuts and bolts of the airline merger.....try opening up your mind and realizing this is not an airline merger, it's a money merger. Its a DEAL...just being put together to en richen a few on Wall Street. They could give a flying fudge about the "airline" and CRJs to Sao Paulo or 787s to Bakersfield. Take a deep breath and get some fresh air....we are all just widgets on a balance sheet.

Get over yourself and stop wishing your fellow pilots ill will. Todays great job is tomorrows BK and vice versa.

 

[Tanker Clown]

How can ass clown think of anything....You need a brain to think. He's too busy worrying about his future with mesa because his stellar 1800+ hours over 20 years makes him about as comptetive as.......Well, nobody!:laugh:

737

Why do you talk so much smack about Mesa? A lot of folks at your non profit airline had to go to Mesa to put food on the table because of furloughs. Some who upgraded didn't take their recall back at Delta because they were doing better at Mesa and due to the upgrade they were getting competitive for a job at SWA.

I'm sure when you guys start your furloughs a lot of your buddies will need to go back there.

 

[jke406]

I've never thought of the Air Force as a charitable organization, but anyone that pays an incompetent pilot and blowhard like Tanker Clown obviously doesn't have the bottom line in mind.

The best part is, each of us is paying this guy's salary, a large portion of which is probably being spent on gay porn and velcro mittens.