Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

You are right, this is a change. But nobody on the fNWA side is against this because it's change. We're against it because it's backward change. The technology we had allowed us to use every minute efficiently and not waste time at the gate, when you could be pushing, getting in the taxi line, then getting numbers when they were available.

It would be like if NWA was the surviving management, and we issued the fDAL guys a memo stating that we do not use LNAV. Rather, we put the ND's in VOR mode and keep the needle centered by changing the heading bug. You would probably think that was backward change. Then we could respond, "oh you former DAL guys just don't like change."

Carl