Nice try.

No, if we are to actually INVEST in the future, let's BUY Airbuses that are NEW instead of cheap old, high cycle heaps that we leased. Please don't go believing these heaps are investments in infrastructure or future, they are just dollars in shareholder pockets. The economic gains of the Airbus are immediate and cover the lease payment ten fold. Nothing but short-term strategy here.

While we're there let's actually BUY (not sponsor) new Airbus sims. We should have learned from our disastrous Pan Am experience that poor sim support will hit the op as hard as broken airplanes. Oh wait, "we don't want to get in the sim business". And don't forget the rest of the argument you conveniently left out, namely lacking investment in EVERYTHING except the shareholders.

The fancy waste of money headquarters building you can keep, the old one worked just fine. I'm still shocked at the clueless, completely disenfranchised letters boasting of lavish headquarters facilities as us 'operators' were losing our crew rooms. The King lives lavishly in his new castle on the backs of the loathsome, taxed villagers, laughing and scoffing at them as they suffer.