Airtran or Jet Blue?

[Skank]

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see both Jetblue and Airtran going strong in ten years. But, as we all know, things can change.

 

[FlyDeltasJets]

For what its worth DAL has been trying to put us under as long as we have been around. Guess what guys, AirTran is here to stay. JB seems like a great place, but most of us Citrus types would not leave what we have. This is a great place to work and if people like furloughed guy look down on us thats their problem. Best of luck to all.

Actually, that is not true. Leo Mullin has repeatedly stated that you are the only thing preventing us from having a monopoly in ATL prompting to gvt to move in and start requesting some very unfavorable things of us. Trust me, they do not want you to go under.

Of course, you maybe have grown a little bit TOO big lately, and I would expect more measures to be taken to combat that in the future. Hopefully, we can both coincided peacefully.

Good Luck and fly safe

 

[Ty Webb]

Of course, you maybe have grown a little bit TOO big lately, and I would expect more measures to be taken to combat that in the future. Hopefully, we can both coincided peacefully.

Good Luck and fly safe

Like what? Coming after us in our proprietary markets? Dumping seats at below cost? Using RJ's? Hogging gate space?

Oh, wait, you're already doing all of those things.

Actually, now that you guys have pulled out all the stops, maybe we'll have to tak a few "measures" . . . like maybe some CVG action?

Buckle your seat belt, it's gonna be an interesting few years.

 

[FlyDeltasJets]

Well,
2.6 billion dollars and 5 billion dollars in unemcumbered assets gives us the ability to try quite a few other things.

You may be making a small profit now, but I really like our chances. Time will tell, but I am quite confident that you have not yet seen all that Delta has planned. I would not be so sure that we have "pulled out all the stops" yet. This is not our first time around the block.

You are correct, it will be interesting.

 

[Race Pilot]

Mo' Better - welcome to the hanger!! First post I see. I was wondering how long it would take for that tail to show up. Not long I guess. Great job.

 

[Race Pilot]

Yep.....right after I finish IOE.

 

[SkyGirl]

I wonder how the patriotism card might play out. I have a friend here in DC who is a legislative assistant. Her congressman is going back to his home district this weekend. In light of the way the French are acting he told her to make sure that she booked him on an American airplane, be didn't want his picture taken getting off a French jet.

SkyGirl

 

[Race Pilot]

make sure that she booked him on an American airplane, be didn't want his picture taken getting off a French jet.

Let's not beat that dead horse again. If you can find a jet built in the US with all US parts or a jet built overseas with all foreign (ie, no US) parts I'll buy you a case of German beer. Or Old Milwaukee if you prefer. Maybe they can fly in a Cessna 172 as it's probably almost all-American.

 

[SkyGirl]

Obviously, this was a question of perception for her congreesman, but it may be representative of American thinking. Fox News, for example, this morning called for a boycot of French products.

I think your example is silly, by the way. There is no question that the Boeing is a domestic product made by Americans and Airbus is a foreign one made by our staunch allies, the French.

Oddly, there are no protections for aircraft manufacturers as there are for our automobile manufacturers. It was the congressional domestic content requirements that forced just about every foreign car maker to build assembly plants in the US and hire US workers to make their product.

SkyGirl

 

[Ty Webb]

Although most aircraft are now a multi-national product (even my very own B717) I think many of us are so disgusted with the French and Germans at this point, that we will probably avoid buying their products, with or without any official boycott.

I think that most of us realize that their reluctance to help with the problem in Iraq is more economic than philosophic. With 11% unemployment, and the need to appease the far left in Germany, it is small wonder that they are reluctant to step up to the plate and do the right thing. After the very brief "war" the real expense will come after that, in the early years of helping the Iraqui people stand on their own two feet.

As for the French, well, I hear that they have finally come around, and they are going to help us . . . by going to Iraq and teaching the Iraquis to surrender properly, after all, that is the one thing that they are very good at.