That gave me a good laugh!

Like I said...$10!;):p

It was an aside on my part, but your comment puzzles me a bit. "Our" passengers? We don't sell a single ticket. All our pax' tickets have the DAL code on them. Seems to me we don't carry any Compass passengers, we carry Delta passengers.

DAL certainly agrees. Our airplanes have DAL livery. Our service is continually being streamlined to mimic DAL's. They don't even want us using "Compass" in our PAs. The sole indication most pax have that they're not on DAL is a tiny sticker under the CA's window that's usually covered by the jetbridge. If I asked our pax who they were flying on, 95% would say Delta. If DAL ever decides we're a bit too expensive, we sure as heck don't have a right to those passengers, DAL will kick us to the door and give em to GoJet.

But hey, if you want to further disassociate yourself from flying that should rightfully be yours, I'm sure DAL won't mind.

Who underwrites that sort of insurance.

GEICO? Can the Gecko fly? Or, are you thinking Flo?

Ensure, not to be confused with the label on your breakfast beverage, is the word you are looking for.

I tried explaining this to my date the other night, That you don't buy a ticket on us, you buy a ticket on big D and end up on us. It was met with a blank stare and the question "They can do that?" and "How do I know I'm on a feeder?". The public is ignorant to the fact that we are not mainline.

Jungle,

You are correct. But, after we take their money, we expect you to deal with their issues, even if we cancelled your flight to manage traffic flow into New York. If the passenger should get upset, an outsourced Agent working for DGS or what's left of Elite will explain to them that Chautaqua, Republic, SkyWest, Expressjet, Compass, Mesaba, Pinnacle, Air France, Alitalia, GOL, Alaska, or AeroMexico is really the cause of their inconvenience, although not responsible.

... and while you used to be a part of our MEC, represented by our Reps, we, in our infinite wisdom, decided that we would be better off representing fewer pilots and less flying, because less leverage is the new more leverage in this nonsensical puzzle palace of representational disunity.

So while you are factually correct, you need to understand that we don't base our conclusions on fact. In fact, the less logic you bring to this discussion, the better for everyone's peace of mind.

Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner.

Glad you voted yes boys??

I had to change jobs because I got tired of:

Mom: My son is a Captain for Southwest
Me: No, I fly for Atlantic Southeast Airlines
Mom: Eastern Air Lines?
Me: No, ASA, we are a subsidiary of SkyWest
Mom: Yeah, that's what I said, Southwest
Me: No. Sky West. SkyWest flies for Delta
Mom: Are you a Mormon?
Me: No. what?
Mom: You know, the Temple Garment, Moroni ...
Me: What? SkyWest is based in Salt Lake City, but they fly for Delta
Mom: Never mind ... so you fly for Delta?
Me: Yes, I mean No, (ah heck, might as well ... )

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It's easy to grin
when your ship comes in
and you've got the stock market beat.
But the man worthwhile
is the man who can smile
when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Wait a second. You guys have been saying for the last 10 pages or so that DAL wouldn't be getting 717s without this TA. Now you're turning around and saying the number of permitted 76 seaters would've increased beyond 153? How exactly was that going to happen if you weren't getting 717s!?