CAL was a great airline, for about 3 years. It was crap for the previous 25. UAL can pick lots of 1-3 year periods where we were #1. Who cares. We are not there now. Either airline.

As far as "great" Asian airlines, that was obviously spoken by someone who never worked for one or understands them. They wouldn't survive 6 months in the US marketplace. They were started and run by connected sons, nephews, and cousins., and subsidized by their uncles and daddy's in the government.

Wait a minute. Isn't that how Smallsack got where he is?

Maybe I need to re-think this.