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You should see what Morning Wood said to No-Rez O. Lewshun in the UAL ALPA J/S thread. Woooo boy!
 
10nCLR said:
What's that PBR? You got jizz stains on your collar?
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10,
Nope,you are still looking in the mirror, that facial you just got from Fabio was done with man juice. As long as you enjoyed it, thats all that counts! Don't worry it doesn't make you gay, just a goofy whatever, with jizz clogging his/it's pores.
PBR
 
XPOO said:
And he is usually so anal about making sure that not one single drop goes to waste, too.
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Ahhhaaa,
The voice of experience, 10 just got a facial from Fabio, who said you were the original client/manjuice target who inspired him to get into the facial business.
PBR
 
Midwest Air Group Inc., struggling to stave off a bankruptcy filing, said it will trim its schedule from Sept. 8 by cutting service to several airports and routing two previously nonstop West Coast fights from Milwaukee via Kansas City, Mo.

Overall, the Milwaukee-based airline said it plans to trim its capacity by 30% to 35% in the fall, in part by grounding several of its planes. But it will retain service to 32 cities.

Midwest, 53% owned by private-equity group TPG and 47% by Northwest Airlines Corp., is trying to win concessions from its pilot and flight attendant unions and its vendors in order to help its finances, which are being hurt by high fuel prices.

The company said it will drop flights this fall to two Florida cities and to San Diego, and start serving Los Angeles and Seattle from Milwaukee via Kansas City.

It also will suspend flights between Kansas City and Orlando, Fla., and discontinue regional jet service to eight cities.

At the same time, the company said it will expand its marketing relationship with Northwest, adding more than 100 routes the two airlines will jointly sell.

"Though Skywest has not announce anything yet, you can see where this is going."
 
No crew furloughs announced anywhere in SWOL. 40% reduction on the MKE base due to Midwest cutbacks.

I assume most of those guys and gals will go to ORD. New hiring probably wont be seen for a while.
 
Goose Egg said:
Just read an internal note about this. If you are with SKW, take a look at the board room on SWOL. If not... then tough beans I guess.

-Goose
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Also check out the SAPA Forum. Lots of positive stuff. Sounds like no furloughs and some interesting potential for movement in the next few months. I hope that announcement comes through in a week like they are talking about. Good Stuff!
 
difete said:
I assume most of those guys and gals will go to ORD. New hiring probably wont be seen for a while.
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I'd guess it would be at least until Spring '09 until we run another new hire class, but that is just an uninformed WAG.

flyerdan said:
Also check out the SAPA Forum. Lots of positive stuff. Sounds like no furloughs and some interesting potential for movement in the next few months. I hope that announcement comes through in a week like they are talking about. Good Stuff!
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That certainly IS good news. I don't know about you, but I'm breathing a sigh of relief... albeit a small one!

Best of luck to all out there! These are tough times!

-Goose
 
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The latest and greatest is a LAX base tentatively to open Oct 1st. Plan is for about 80 crews. No furloughs.
 
Erlanger said:
The latest and greatest is a LAX base tentatively to open Oct 1st. Plan is for about 80 crews. No furloughs.
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OH MY GOSH, that would be a "best case scenario" for me. Away with you LAX-SLC commuters!! Go back to your smoggy homeland! (I keed, I keed... but not really. :) )

-Goose
 
pipers said:
yup, sounds like a LAX base announced later this week to cover the DAL flying. 80 pilots or so?
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Didn't think DAL was planning on any more RJ flying out of LA. But LA base a possibility for a few senior lucky souls. Also looks like they are going to be offering time off etc to get the pilot staffing down for a while. If Midwest tanks they will have about 350-400 too many, so I am told.
 
LA should have been a domicile a long time ago. Supposedly for June we used nearly 50 hotel rooms a night.

I'd heard that the new UA 700s where going to be flying out of LAX, and that what was driving the new domicile.
 
Socalplt said:
LA should have been a domicile a long time ago. Supposedly for June we used nearly 50 hotel rooms a night.
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And one of the crappiest overnights to boot. Nice hotel, but I was never there long enough to do anything but hit the In-n-out up the road.

Anyway, one thing is for sure: If we get an LAX base, we'll definitely need a bigger crew lounge. It was too small already.

-Goose
 
Goose Egg said:
And one of the crappiest overnights to boot. Nice hotel, but I was never there long enough to do anything but hit the In-n-out up the road.
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Hey now...that In-N-Out and the park across the street are like airplane geek Mecca.

And the guys at the tattoo shop across the street are pretty cool, too. Nothing like getting a tattoo and/or piercing with 747's on final rattling the entire place...
 
WalterSobchak said:
Hey now...that In-N-Out and the park across the street are like airplane geek Mecca.

And the guys at the tattoo shop across the street are pretty cool, too. Nothing like getting a tattoo and/or piercing with 747's on final rattling the entire place...
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I shoot pool in the bar next to that tattoo parlor. 1 block up the street is a decent Thai restaurant.

Now I wonder if they'll have lines for the E120 as well if LAX becomes a real base.
 
With all due respect to In-N-Out...

WalterSobchak said:
Hey now...that In-N-Out and the park across the street are like airplane geek Mecca.
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Hey, I'm just as big of an aviation geek as the next guy (probably bigger), but somehow a few fly-bys don't take the sting out of a 9 hour overnight, especially before/after an 8 leg day.

Besides, I don't really start getting excited until the aircraft have one or two seats, come minus fuel and electrical systems, and have wingspans measured in meters. I don't see a lot of those down in LAX.

And the guys at the tattoo shop across the street are pretty cool, too. Nothing like getting a tattoo and/or piercing with 747's on final rattling the entire place...
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I'll have to remember when I go in for my next piercing. ;)

-Goose

Viva la Skew!!!
 
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