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07-24-2013 | 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

It stands to reason, if we start overflying Japan we are going to need metal and pilots to fly more block hours. Taken at face value, Alaska airlines provides the feed for a continuing build of Seattle's long haul flying.

Where are we going to get the gates?
I thought that was the limiting factor in Seattle.

07-24-2013 | 08:11 AM

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Who knows if we can vertically integrate our way around Wall Street speculators who are intent to profit from commodities they have zero interest in consuming ... .

My point is that Delta, and any other airline, is not morally superior in this respect. They have no interest in consuming the actual commodities bought and sold in their "hedges" either. They are looking to profit from commodities that they won't consume. They are, by definition, speculators; just like Wall Street.

07-24-2013 | 08:15 AM

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Want to hear something funny, searched Renewable Energy Credits on the EPA site ... they laud that commoditizing credits "adds price stability" .... yeah right.

Short of absolute government price controls, adding liquidity and participants to a market does add price stability.

07-24-2013 | 08:36 AM

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FYI MEC Alert 13-02 out

07-24-2013 | 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by PilotFrog

I noticed that now that we are on the brink of hitting the magical $10B in debt, they have moved the goal posts again to $7B by 2017.

Time to increase the dividend and buy back more stock in the 20s.

07-24-2013 | 09:57 AM

#135956

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Short of absolute government price controls, adding liquidity and participants to a market does add price stability.

Herds move in one direction, then the other. Thrown in Goldman, or a couple sovereign wealth funds from oil producing nations, with very lax government controls, no accountability and poor visibility and prices do things like ...

Normabnorm, absent any other factors your view would be accurate, but allowing non consumers to speculate has only added to the cost of commodities at the consumer level.

07-24-2013 | 10:07 AM

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Sorry for the thread drift...I put in a request for a trip swap in open time, around 11:15 this am. Any ideas as to when that trip swap would be looked at?
Thanks!

07-24-2013 | 10:28 AM

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Sorry for the thread drift...I put in a request for a trip swap in open time, around 11:15 this am. Any ideas as to when that trip swap would be looked at?
Thanks!

PCS deadlines start at 0700 Eastern, then every 5 hours. Normally drops/awards/swaps come out within 10-20 minutes after that time.

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