Attached the wall bracket, took a while but I was just being anal about measurements for once in my life. I had already tested the microwave so now I just picked it up, walked it over, kid threw up in his sleep. Wife takes care of that, then he threw up on her. So I help. Pick microwave back up later, put it on the bracket, awesome, holding, feed power cord through, start screwing in the top screws and... one bracket fell off one of the screws and fell inside the microwave. Dead in the water. Take it back apart and drive it back tomorrow. @#%@#%@!.

Hopefully this is also the beginning of the end of the Alaska codeshare. I think Marketing and network finally woke up to the reality that they are NOT our little regional feed and through the "enhanced" agreements with American and Emerites...that they are a competitor and should be treated as such. My prediction: when we start taking deliveries of the 717's and 900's next fall/winter, we won't be parking the older 320's and 757's as scheduled....but that we will continue to replace Alaska capacity on the West Coast, ultimately ending the codeshare completely by this time next year:).

So are these 17 routes officially replacing current ALK feed, or are these new routes altogether?

I got the impression that the majority, if not all, of the new feed would be serviced by mainline aircraft.

the kid or the microwave? :D

Bar's video in an different format. Is that Donald Sutherland narrating?

Delta has been stating since well before Alaska's latest partnerships that Lax would be the next expansion area. Their comments on a lax expansion were ridiculed here on the forum over a year ago. Replacing Alaska in Sea is simply not in the cards unless we can acquire 10 to 20 new gates and are willing to engage in a long term money losing bloodbath.

An attempt to copy BAs commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozHLoqwp_4

List of all the control towers that will be closing.
FAA may close air traffic towers at smaller airports | Jamie Dupree Washington Insider

I see a lot on that list that should have closed a long time ago. Shut them down and bring on the GA IFR user fees I say.

Very Unlikely. This is a little message to ALK. We can do this one of two ways. The nice way, or we can destroy your market cap and call in to question the nice little thing you have going. Which way do you want to do this?

DAL has plenty of gate space for international Growth in SEA, what they do not have is enough gate space to add the feed required to replace ALK. On top of this, DAL would have a very hard time competing with the loyalty that ALK enjoys with its customers in the Pacific NW. DAL knows it, ALK knows it.

What ALK has is a market cap that makes them very difficult for one to be successful in a hostile takeover. A buyer would need to offer a premium on the already inflated market price and that would put the cash needed in the ballpark of 4 billion plus or minus a few hundred million. That is cash AMR and DAL do not have. ALK management knows it and it appears that they have pushed back on some of DAL's desires. What we are seeing is DAL sending ALK a very understated but strong message.