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Old 07-25-2020, 08:23 AM
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IMO replicators are going to decimate the cargo industry before transporters will. Food replicators will decimate the supermarket, farming, and restaurant industries.
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Old 07-25-2020, 08:44 AM
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Once they get done parking jets they will begin to gut our working agreement...it's like they dust off the same old play book every ten years or so.
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Old 07-25-2020, 08:47 AM
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Once they get done parking jets they will begin to gut our working agreement...it's like they dust off the same old play book every ten years or so.
only if we allow it to happen
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Old 07-25-2020, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by iaflyer View Post
The battle at Delta has always been between having too many fleet types and network saying they can earn plenty of money to support different fleet types. Network likes different sized airplanes to supply a market to match demand as close as they can.

Even the large 737-900ER order has had changes during the run. Example, the early airplanes had different landing lights than later planes - so just the 737-900ER fleet will have differing part numbers within the sub-fleet.
This is less of a Delta decision, and more because Boeing stopped making the old retractable lights. The latter NGs ended up with the MAX pedestal and LED landing lights because it's cheaper to make one set than to make 2 simultaneously. The exact same thing happened with P-8As. The new ones all have the knobby start levers and the LED lights.
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Old 07-25-2020, 09:47 AM
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I heard a rumor that Delta is going to replace our fleet of porches with miatas.
Gonna be hard to put all the new retirees’ rocking chairs on a Miata.
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Old 07-25-2020, 12:46 PM
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Most eye-opening Shatner story: He was homeless after TOS ended, mostly due to a divorce.

Wife didn't take kindly to green lipstick, apparently.
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Old 07-25-2020, 02:26 PM
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He did much better on his next divorce. Did not have to pay her anything but very questionable circumstances.
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Old 07-25-2020, 03:13 PM
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He did much better on his next divorce. Did not have to pay her anything but very questionable circumstances.
I remember that, not to be confused with Season 2, episode 14, "Wolf in the Fold". Mr. Scot was the suspect. I'm losing it.
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Old 07-25-2020, 03:27 PM
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He did much better on his next divorce. Did not have to pay her anything but very questionable circumstances.
Learned from experience. Unusually smart, that. Good for him.

Young me thought men were the calculating, cold hearted realists and women were the romantics.

Young me was stupid and got that exactly backwards.
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Old 07-26-2020, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Hank Kingsley View Post
Shatner used to have horses in northern Kentucky, I sat next to him commuting to CVG. Got a lot of CRM tips. TIC. Later, ran into Scotty at the Drawbridge's microbrewery, Star Trek convention. He hated Shatner. After a couple beers, it was fun.
Drawbridge, man is that a blast from the past. I was based in CVG as a new hire 23 1/2 years ago. That was like the only place to go from my crash pad / hotel....

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