Originally Posted by tsquare

Do you seriously believe this?

I think you two are mixing problems a bit. There is outsourcing to partners, then there is the ME carriers. A country the size of North Dakota has 100-777s on order. They have the backing of serious oil money. That is quite different than Virgin Atlantic or British Airways or China Southern. Now granted, it is time to revisit our relationships with those carriers, especially if they are getting more of a lion's share of the JV flying. (I honestly do not know the numbers one way or the other). But it is time to look at it, and perhaps it should become an issue.

But to compare that relationship to fighting off NAI or M R Rats is a completely different thing. You think we have stagnation now? Wait until the sand fleas are in CONUS flying between NY and LA..... I would rather tell my mother I was a gay hooker than to tell her I fly for a middle east company, but that's just me....