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Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1283801)

First your are channeling drank (says someone), now you channel Lumberg?

Wteef? :D

What's next, someone confusing you for Carl or Jesse? :eek:

Everyone is allowed to use 717. You use it when you're proud of your post, whether it was any good or not.

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Originally Posted by Humboldt (Post 1283802)

Still slow.

http://www3.images.coolspotters.com/...do-gallery.jpg

No, I really like your hot girls in coats meme.

Our Fly Confirmed for less is a crock of $%&#.

DFW-HNL, Fly Confirmed for Less = $925
DFW-HNL, Fly Confirmed for even Less = 822

DFW-HNL, Delta.com = 857

Same flights same day

I thought we were suppose to get at least 30% off.

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Originally Posted by shiznit (Post 1283801)

First your are channeling drank (says someone), now you channel Lumberg?

Wteef? :D

What's next, someone confusing you for Carl or Jesse?

I should change my avatar to a Grimace in the cone of shame to really throw slowplay off if he ever takes his personal cone of shame off of me. :)

Ok, fine. I am drank and Lumberg! I'm also ftb and acl. And Carl. And Jesse. I like me some boobies. And slow. It would be hard to pull it off without getting angry at one of my personalities without getting really butthurt at one of them and ignoring it. :) Not newK, though. I can't live up to that.

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Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1283746)

Anyone flown with a LCA who has spilled the beans on the meeting takeaway? I just flew a trip with one, and he took 6-7 pages of notes, but I couldn't find anything earthshattering in them.

However, there was an interesting perspective floated about the TA/contract. Apparently, the timing of it had nothing to do with RJs and 717s (that was just $h1t for the troops), it had to do with locking down labor costs in order to get institutional investors and lenders to play ball with management for lending/ leverage.

That is absolutely not true. Delta did not have any trouble getting financing before our deal. United has been able to do financing since exiting bankruptcy even with no contracts at all being finished, AMR is still getting financing for their new 737's and 777's even though they are in bankruptcy and their labor situation is chaotic at best.

New aircraft are in high demand and thus make good collateral. If someone doesn't pay, you simply fly the jet over to the next customer. This whole financing thing has been floated around as some rumor for months and months and it is horse hockey. Delta's credit rating has improved since the merger and the last upgrade was before our deal was done. Delta had excellent access to credit with or without this deal.

The timing was about the availability of this fleet of aircraft (717's) and the need to either stick a lot of money into engine maintenance on 50 seaters or get busy replacing them. It was all about the refleeting and had nothing to do with access to capital.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1283755)

that was our fleeting opportunity?

+717

ten

That's not what he was asserting, alfa (nor what I heard from friends at the meeting).

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Originally Posted by Humboldt (Post 1283797)

Yes boomer, I can't add a nice picture like yours, I'm tech slow.

Furlough gave me time to learn the important things in life, such as posting underboob on APC.

Then Clamp goes on his big "trenchcoat" inquisition and I am once again a pilot without a purpose.

http://missionhusband.files.wordpres...ld_pouting.jpg

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1283843)

Pilots that wear trenchcoats have no place in my life. Even though I use to wear them at my regional , I hate that those things covered up my gleaming doublebreastedness to be.

You, therefore, are shunned.

Tee hee.. I said breast.