Southwest changing it's "stance" in ATL. HMMMMMM

[General Lee]

I never said anything about tomorrow's loads General. I said the loads are weak from now past Memorial Day.

Here's your average load for all of next week (7 days).....70%. I wouldn't call that very good in todays environment. So no, I wasn't wrong on the flights NOT being full. They aren't, but thanks for trying to spin this into another DL vs. SW thread, I could care less.

Idiotic....as usual.

Max,

Pension obiligations in the Billions....with a B? That's huge.

RF

Hey Red, our nation has debts in the Trillions, with a T. Did you also crap your pants just now? That's huge....

It's all about servicing your debt, and you probably learned that from your uncle who is huge in the oil business....riiiight.

Hey, can you look up your own loads from LAS to BUR on the 7am dept on Oct 14th of this year? I bet the loads are pretty low.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

Then why the hell buy AirTran. What an epic failure. AirTran's biggest strength was its ATL fortress, that competed well with Delta. SWA comes in swoops up AirTran with 717s and 737s. It's pretty obvious that SWA was not going to operate the 717 (or anything other than a 737) so that was a waste. Result? All leased out to Delta. Goodbye jobs. Next, the AirTran ATL hub. Result? Reduced now to just a SWA focus city. Goodbye more jobs and ATL hub status. So the net result of this merger was a handful of AirTran 737s and slots at various airports through the country. What a stupid non-beneficial merger (if you can even call it a merger).

True Flyer, but the real benefit is one fewer airline choice for consumers, which helps every other airline. Consolidation is key to compete against the next round of giants that have oil money behind them. You have to be profitable and stable to compete and buy new planes, and 6 legacies wasn't cutting it. SWA did everyone a favor by taking yet another one away. It's actually helped DL a lot. AT was a low cost carrier, and SWA really isn't anymore. They have to keep fares up to pay for their more expensive employees (a good thing IMO), and that means higher fares for everyone. I don't think DL management minded at all hearing the news, and they get 88 717s paid for by SWA (over $130 million in refurb costs). Great deal.



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Flyer1015]

True Flyer, but the real benefit is one fewer airline choice for consumers, which helps every other airline. Consolidation is key to compete against the next round of giants that have oil money behind them. You have to be profitable and stable to compete and buy new planes, and 6 legacies wasn't cutting it. SWA did everyone a favor by taking yet another one away. It's actually helped DL a lot. AT was a low cost carrier, and SWA really isn't anymore. They have to keep fares up to pay for their more expensive employees (a good thing IMO), and that means higher fares for everyone. I don't think DL management minded at all hearing the news, and they get 88 717s paid for by SWA (over $130 million in refurb costs). Great deal.



Bye Bye---General Lee

That's true, one big airline was still taken out of the equation. Now we're down to just 3 legacies (DL/AA/UA) and SWA. The rest are LCCs. IMO, the next wave of consolidation will be amongst the LCC level. JetBlue, Virgin, Spirit, Frontier (<--- these 4 all have same fleet), Allegiant, Hawaiian, and Alaska. I think in the next 5 years, you will see at least two of these merge.

 

[Phlintstone]

Nah, I ate dinner next to the REAL Eiffel Tower, you know, not in Las Vegas. Maybe someday you'll go there and crap your pants with excitement. You'll be saying "this ain't Lubbock or Midland, and the people's, them people's speak weird......hey Mama (your wife), what's they sayin?"


Bye Bye----General Lee

So it was you! The dud kept talking about flying the ER in from Paris!!! Your assumption that flying to Europe and back is an impressive event fits your little pee pee, big watch personality. It is benign, especially in a 76ER.

Yawn, BTDT in Paris, and many other European cities. I've been to every continent except the cold one down south. Again you think something so small is impressive. It might work on teenage boys but not here.

Phred

 

[redflyer65]

Hey Red, our nation has debts in the Trillions, with a T. Did you also crap your pants just now? That's huge....



Bye Bye---General Lee

You came out of bankruptcy with Billions in debt and you're comparing it to the nations debt to make yourself feel better?

You win!

Your comic relief is legendary.

 

[General Lee]

You came out of bankruptcy with Billions in debt and you're comparing it to the nations debt to make yourself feel better?

You win!

Your comic relief is legendary.

Of course you didn't read the DL Q1 conference call transcripts, but it did tout the erasing of $6 BILLION in debt over 3 years, and reaching the set goal this year of another billion, bringing debt interest payments down over $50 million PER MONTH, which equates to $600 million per year, in interest savings.....
With that kind of debt retirement ability, this thing must be a HUGE revenue and profit producer. You might not be sweating it, but others in your company and the industry are. No wonder DL is a favorite around the analyst table at CNBC. I didn't hear your company mentioned at all for some reason. I guess no news is good news, right? Goodnight Red... (Morning over here). Enjoy the free buffet at the la Quinta in Amarillo....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

So it was you! The dud kept talking about flying the ER in from Paris!!! Your assumption that flying to Europe and back is an impressive event fits your little pee pee, big watch personality. It is benign, especially in a 76ER.

Yawn, BTDT in Paris, and many other European cities. I've been to every continent except the cold one down south. Again you think something so small is impressive. It might work on teenage boys but not here.

Phred

Yawn? Hahahahah. You have also been to Mars and The Sun..... These days you get to go to Amarillo, Islip, and other awesome places. But, you don't care, you have already been EVERYWHERE...... So funny! Yawn! Places never change btw, so what you saw 30 years ago is probably the same... Probably... And you're making fun of 767ERs? Wow. Are they better than old 737-300s? Yawn.....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[SWA Bubba]

Of course you didn't read the DL Q1 conference call transcripts, but it did tout the erasing of $6 BILLION in debt over 3 years, and reaching the set goal this year of another billion, bringing debt interest payments down over $50 million PER MONTH, which equates to $600 million per year, in interest savings.....
With that kind of debt retirement ability, this thing must be a HUGE revenue and profit producer. You might not be sweating it, but others in your company and the industry are. No wonder DL is a favorite around the analyst table at CNBC. I didn't hear your company mentioned at all for some reason. I guess no news is good news, right? Goodnight Red... (Morning over here). Enjoy the free buffet at the la Quinta in Amarillo....


Bye Bye---General Lee

Wait....

there's a FREE buffet at the Amarillo la Quinta?! (that's all I heard, after "blah, blah, blah..."

Bubba

 

[General Lee]

Wait....

there's a FREE buffet at the Amarillo la Quinta?! (that's all I heard, after "blah, blah, blah..."

Bubba

I think Red said that was the case. Anyway, I just LUV it when new guys like Phred say "I've already seen ALL of Europe, and I would NEVER want to go there again, especially on the Company's dime....." It really makes me laugh. Yeah, he's seen it ALL, and never, ever, had to see anything else outside of Texas or the 48 contiguous States and now San Juan....

I really don't want to get back into the this is better than that layover stuff, but I was just reminding Red about that breakfast that he loves. Have a good one Bubba.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[DYLIN]

YOUR flights General. Delta is empty to MCI. I think you might need some simple reading skills.

Need me to post the side by side numbers to shut you up?

You said Delta would be full. News flash. They aren't, not even close. But keep running those 7 empty flights. Maybe RA will need to replace those MD's and 757's with the large RJs that are coming. Haha.

Say whatever you want about GL and his style on here, but you're an idiot if you're actually interpreting those loads in the way you say you are.

Anything a month from today is going to have lots of open seats.

Are you serious?

Or are you just that clueless?