De Hubbing and using Atlanta as an O&D market.

I get a little ill every time guests see the Southwest Airlnes Coral Reef third of the Alanta aquarium. That should be Delta.

This thread reminds me of when ACL got his first iPhone

The 30 Most Hilarious Autocorrect Struggles Ever

Been a while since we laughed this hard

I have heard this is why Delta utilizes so much cross-pollination when they doll out the DCI routes.

Who owns the DTW-MCI route? five years ago it was Mesaba. Now you have Pinnacle, Compass, SkyWest, and Shuttle all flying that route on any given day. One goes on strike? Change some flight numbers and nobody's the wiser.

Of course, when you have five aircraft on the fence at LGA, all wearing different names, you have some big problems when an IROP hits.

Speaking of which...
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Nicely done Boomer!!!!

Wait, there are two there right??

If I remember correctly, that is a Jesse stock photo. Boomer, that's a copyright infringement.

I was being serious about my how do you tell what is struck work questions. I don't know why noone fielded that ball. For example, in the absolutely unlikely event DAL pilots went on strike and DAL rebooked a passenger on USair, is that flying struck work?

I don't know the answers to any of these types of questions. I remember when Comair was on strike, we called the DALPA control center and got the all green for each flight. However, as time has gone on, the question has become cloudier.

While the RLA hamstrings us in many regards, not knowing clearly what is or is not struck work is an issue we have assisted in creating. Without the CREDIBLE threat of a strike - a strike that actually has teeth and stops the company in its tracks - we really have no big gun. IOW, we are at the mercy of the company's negotiators.

So, we have ceded the big gun. Scabs are a thing of the past. Strike threats have no teeth. I could negotiate against us with that backdrop.

Hey, stop it! That test tickles! :D

And Free Jesse!

(is it Friday already? Thanks Boomer!)

Jesse has been to the end of the Internet twice. It was bound to happen eventually.

Will you accept this one as an apology?

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Great quote:

"AirTran had half its capacity in Atlanta in an operation that was “not successful,” Chief Executive Gary Kelly said. "

Sooo.. we buy an airline and crow about how we're getting access to ATL. Then we drop the hub operation which was the linchpin to Airtran and their traffic, and focus on O/D traffic? Which will work great, because there's no one else flying people out of ATL. :rolleyes:

Actually flying out of Atlanta is a little brutal, price wise, for we business folks that buy our own tickets. I always fly Delta, but most of my associates were deep into the AirTran easy upgrades. If your travel is mostly regional it is difficult to become frequent flier royalty.

What LUV is doing is not going head to head with Delta, but attacking them in DAL's secondary markets. So far DAL is doing quite well with this attempt, but it is where LUV seeks weakness.