Originally Posted by
loungelzrd
If that's the case lets buy a controlling interest in UAL. We could borrow the money to start, and then pay it back by taking less pay, and a B fund contribution reduction for oh let's say six years. Yeah, six years ought to do it. This is too easy. Somebody should have come up with this before.
That is too funny (but not funny in a 'ha-ha' kind of way). When the airline I was working for after UAL was going down the tubes someone suggested that we, the pilots, buy the place. I told him that I owned an airline once and it didn't work out so well. He didn't get it.