Two days after joining the Star Alliance (after a multi-year "thanks but no thanks" for failed safety audits), Air India pops a motor on a 777 and returns to EWR, hard landing, blows tires. UA code on that flight.

Market is up to record levels today, all airlines up, except UA which is down 1%.

"Operational Excellence" abounds (also known as moving forward?) but all the suits are promising 3 quarters of stellar earnings in 2014.

UA reports Q2 earnings on 7/24, I guess we'll see.