Originally Posted by FlyZ

Yeah, there's an awful lot of *'s on that list of cities. Good thing our customers prefer flying mainline...you know, 70 seats and above.

Break break---from three weeks ago:

ALPA: We think you guys need to hire. The peasants...er, pilots are getting a little reckless and threatening to break up our consortium.

MGT: Argh, another waste of money. How many would pacify them?

ALPA: Could you go 500?

MGT: We'll hire 50.

ALPA: How about 400?

MGT: Tell you what. We'll bring back the bypasses, add 100 new pilots, and make it sound like 300 in a well-crafted email. In return, you start prepping them to give us relief on the Atlantic JV. Or, we could increase mainline flying to comply.

ALPA & MGT: Ah, ha ha ha, ah, ha ha ha, good one! (Much knee slapping occurs)

ALPA: No, that sounds good. We will get an email out in the next two weeks. You guys still plan to be out of compliance in the Pacific, too, right?

MGT: Yes, and remember, you already agreed to sell that to the masses.

ALPA: We know, we know, working it already.

MGT: Come up with one of those graphs with a large y-axis scale so everything looks flat and fair. Those usually fool them.

ALPA: Funny you should mention it. That's our plan for the JV prep email.

MGT: Excellent...more cognac?

ALPA: Why yes sir, don't mind if I do.