What is going on with our stock, early in trading day and 9mil shares trades down over one dollar?

CNBC is reporting the DOJ will file suit against AMR and USAir to block the merger.

Looks like most airlines are getting hammered.

So probably fear that the government is trying to keep ticket prices down by preventing too many seats being taken out of the market.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100959290

Why are guys white slipping with 0 res in ATL, NYC, MSP M88.

In the summer, yes, that's what I see. I'm in the top 3rd of RES and I sat 1 SC in 2 months because that's all they could do with my thanks to 30/7. Otherwise every day I was on RES I had a trip assigned to me on LC.

Outside of the summer it's heavily weighted towards a month off with pay for what seemed to be the top 10%. Wait I take that back. In my category it was heavily weighted so that guys got a month off but then they hacked off 20% of the reserve list and then even in a slow month everyone flew constantly. Which is why I'm curious on how a seniority only system would increase staffing.

And btw, I'm with everyone who says the buckets and SC need to be coupled. I'm 100% on board with that. But the guys who complain about seniority and reserve will have the same argument about that happening because they'll be stuck sitting on and flying the SCs. They'll be right back to saying we need to honor seniority on SC.

Just like trip parking guys want(ed) to find every which way they can fly beyond ALV+15, the "honor seniority" crowd wants (imho only) every which way to have someone fly for them.

I still think buckets need to fluctuate via a formula. And I kind of like alfaromeo's idea of rollover RAW score. Say if you're in bucket 3 or higher you get half your score at the beginning of the next month.

I'm not sure I'd like this or not, but here's an idea, LC and SC only RES lines?

The only reason I could think for that is they dropped they're the WS types who drop the line and pick up. They may have already gotten GSs earlier this month and are just aiming to get above the GS trigger.

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XJT had this and it was awesome if you were senior enough to bid a LC only line....but all the rest of the guys were on SC every single day. Not sure we want to go to a system that has SC only lines. Maybe awarding 10% of the reserve category long call only lines while the others stay on the current system would work.

No I'm not sure I want that either. Unless SC had 15-16 days off a month.

Well.....only if the SC line pays more. But I'm not sure how they'd do that. ALV+5 as opposed to ALV-2???

Prob trying to make their GSs good.

It is ironic, looking at the MSP category, how many folks out-of-base WS. I suppose they live in MSP... but the company has no incentive to build the category back up if they can get NYC pilots to do MSP flying.