Originally Posted by SonicFlyer (Post 2591312)

What the hell does "whipsawing" mean? :confused:

Originally Posted by Quarryman (Post 2592268)

It's when your girlfriend turns down your offer to do her backside and you simply tell her that you'll do her sister and her sister just smiles with the grin of the devil.

Originally Posted by Bobs98tlr (Post 2593384)

That sounds dangerously fun!

Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 2589883)

The willingness of Airbus to buy into Bombardier and the desire of Boeing to buy into Embraer suggests to me where they think this is going. Bigger, more capable, but more fuel efficient per seat mike "RJs such as the C-series and E-2s are going to be flown in the niche where they make the best economic sense, either by mainline as their low end equipment or by independent "regionals" who will not be bound by scope clauses to the big four.

One could envision a medium-sized city network (perhaps Jeff Bezos will create Amazon Prime Air?) with tickets sold exclusively online and no real codeshare obligations at all. Look what LYFT and UBER have already done to mass transit and taxi services. The future is going to see bigger changes than we would believe. I mean, who would have imagined five years ago that the regionals would be competing with higher pay and hiring and retention bonuses for a diminishing number of nominally qualified newbie FO applicants?

Originally Posted by Name User (Post 2590197)

Well oil just crossed $70. Highs prices help some of our business (Midwest and south fracking areas now have more money) but hurt overall. So far revenue is not increasing along with costs.

So, it doesn't bode well.

Compare our latest quarterly numbers with SWA, they earned more and had 1/2 the airplanes in their fleet.

Unfortunately Doug has hitched our business model to the expensive CASM RJ.