Gilligan's Island was built for Delta, mainline, long before ASA was there! It was built back in the early 90's, to accomodate the 'new' fleet of MD88's, back when the DFW base was nearly as large as ATL. At one time, DFW had nearly every category based there, from International L10-11's flying to Frankfurt and London, DC8's, 767/757's, 727's, MD 88's, and 737's. I think there were about 2,500 Delta pilots based there at the peak.

Then Mo'Ron decided to run away from DFW...rather than compete with AA.

And, in another Mo'Ron moment of brilliance, he passed on buying Pan Am's South American ops out of MIA...opting instead for the trans atlantic routes, which put PA into bankrutptcy in the first place. Shortly after Mo'Ron bought Pan Am, Delta started losing money, big time! At one point I think I heard we were losing $3Million...PER DAY!

BRILLIANT! And, he's still getting his Delta Retirement money!