My Pre-New Year's New Year's resolution was to learn to play the 2 guitars I have... and I mean play... not just strum a few chords, this year. Thanks. now I feel like I am light years from achieving that goal. :o

When I was in Architecture school, we would literally move into the design studios the last 2 or 3 weeks of the semester to work on our projects. Every night at 2am.. this got blasted in the whole building...

They killed it too.... :)

Songs like that are fun to cover.

My tastes lead me into Dave Matthews and Mark Knoffler, both of whom conspire to leave me deeply frustrated. I thought Joe Walsh said it best, "when you start playing you just suck. Then you spend the rest of your life trying to suck less."

CPZ flows stop after about 125 or so for the year. Then it won't matter how many classes DL runs, or how big they are, there won't be any more CPZ flows until the following year. Then another 125 or so.

So the last 5-6 months of hiring would be zero CPZ flows. While there would continue to be former Mesaba flows at 9 a month (I think that would continue) that supply line would be exhausted in about a year.

If we do see sustained hiring along the numbers people are implying...60 a month for the first half of the year...that leaves half of each class zero CPZ/Mesaba flows for the first half of the year and the second only 9 Mesaba flows per month. DL could also run multipile classes per month, so if there was a class of 60 on the 1st and a class of 60 on the 2nd through the 31st, out of 120 only a total of 29 CPZ/Mesaba flows would go.

Now there is the variable of the Pinnacle flows but I forget the details of that, but the CPZ/Mesaba flows are the bulk of the flows anyway and they tap out quick and end one of them ends entirely after about a year of hiring.

IOW, plenty of room for "off the streeters" at DL, from the beginning of hiring onward.

I want to go on record saying that I'm against using tax payer money to draw penises on the surface of Mars.

Why? If you've got it ...


As soon as Biden helps the Boss move out in three more years ...

Maybe, although not every order has to be industry headlining "Heros of Farnsborough" end of year clearance super sale events. A smaller order may not mean replacement only, and a larger order may not mean growth.

If we got 10-15 near term as is rumored, they could all very well be growth. As you mentioned DL is anemic in that area. Likewise if we placed a jaw dropping middle east style order, all that could be replacement for our entire ER fleet on a negative pilot block hour basis, plus replacing the 777-200's on a negative basis, and maybe even replace the whales as well, and still look like a pretty big order on paper.

IOW I think a small growth order is very possible. Likely? My Spidey sense says no, no growth ever; not allowed! But if you take half a step back and look at things objectively, another dozen or two actually does make sense.

Who couldn't love a band named after the 88? Throttleburst!!!

Throttleburst- STP - YouTube

Exactly.

Just like the big 737-900 order...

Great...except they are going to replace the 757's, which pay more than the 737's!:eek:

True enough, although I would clarify that it won't be their actual oil that needs to run out for their bubble to pop. All that has to happen is the viability of their soverign wealth transfer pyramid scheme collapsing once the US gets its energy policy together, coupled with the inevitable reduction of regional military welfare by the "west" and hopefully the end of special subsidies on our end and their little house of cards will come tumbling down. It will be a beautiful sight to behold too.