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Originally Posted by Timbo
(Post 1505792)
There was a hot looking Gullwing Mercedes parked outside our hotel in Dubai a couple days ago.
I've never seen one in the states, but you will see some pretty nice stuff rolling around the streets of Dubai. I think it was this one: 2013 Mercedes Gullwing - Bing Images I've also seen a few McLarens running around over there, I don't think they pass the test to be imported to the USA, I've not seen one over here: mclaren sports cars - Bing Images McLaren MP4-12C in BOS 1.5 yrs ago! |
Originally Posted by flying_wendell
(Post 1505850)
Congratulations on your new girl! Is it your first?
I've gone back and forth through the years on Gold HRA and the Diamond HSA, and I think the Diamond is the better plan particularly if your family is a heavy consumer of healthcare. I've got two special needs kids and a wife with some health issues, and we hit the Diamond deductible by March every year. I've tried the Gold plan hoping it would save me some money on two different occasions, but it did not. That being said, I think the Diamond has gotten a little worse through the years as they have raised the deductible and added coinsurnace. One advantage of the Diamond is that there is no prescription deductible. It is just included in with the medical deductible, whereas with the Gold you have a medical deductible and a prescription deductible. Again if you are a heavy user, then the Gold's dual deductibles (medical & prescription) aren't too far off from the Diamond's high deductible but you pay more per month for the plan and the coinsurance is higher. |
DELTA Increases DTW-LHR Service
Originally Posted by scambo1
(Post 1505548)
Nah. We just haven't heard of any new/re-instated European destinations.
by JL Update at 0400GMT 22OCT13 DELTA from 01JUN14 is introducing 2nd daily service on Detroit – London Heathrow route, on board Boeing 767 aircraft. 2nd daily flight departing London begins on 02JUN14. DL018 DTW1820 – 0705+1LHR 76W D DL056 DTW2225 – 1105+1LHR 764 D DL019 LHR0945 – 1305DTW 764 D DL057 LHR1305 – 1604DTW 76W D |
Originally Posted by Professor
(Post 1505821)
Crossing the under $10bn in debt is the real story today.
Expect good refinancing of our debt, making payments much less; ergo creating free cash flow. Cash flow = bucks. Bucks= Buck Rogers Standby for good fights for Seattle, Asia and against ME carriers. Giddeeeeup. Hopefully the debt reduction is as cash flow positive as many have projected and that enables us to offset what will have to soon become a very significant drop in the YoY yield numbers as we stop shrinking, start "growing" (only partially back to pre-shrinkage levels of course) and get into the inevitable capacity/yield/marketshare battles with the dellusional dual subsidized fantasy orderbook ME carreirs and the domestic endless growth mode LCC's. |
Originally Posted by gloopy
(Post 1505889)
Hope you're right about that. I'm still concerned at how we will respond in the day and age of crackberry day trader autolinked index funds where a billion dollar profit that's less than YoY results in a stock tanking and the BOD pushing for a return to the numbers by any unsustainable means possible. IOW, I think we're about done with shrinking to profitability as an effective stratedgy.
Hopefully the debt reduction is as cash flow positive as many have projected and that enables us to offset what will have to soon become avery significant drop in the YoY yield numbers as we stop shrinking, start "growing" (only partially back to pre-shrinkage levels of course) and get into the inevitable capacity/yield/marketshare battles with the dellusional dual subsidized fantasy orderbook ME carreirs and the domestic endless growth mode LCC's. That being said. I agree with you that the shrink to profitability playbook is in the trash. Even with a retarded dysfunctional federal government that gives not a tinker's dam about it's own industries, we are on a great trajectory, and as long as UAL is still in stick shaker we can keep our foot on the gas. I AM concerned about that when they do get things going. They will be a very formidable competitor.... One question that stuck in my mind about the conference call was that Ed (I think) said the Virgin JV is set to start on 1 Jan. Shouldn't we be in some sort of contract talks about that? |
Originally Posted by tsquare
(Post 1505895)
I really don't think that the day trading crackberry crowd is going to affect this plan all that much. True that the mantra of the day trader is to trade the rumor rather than to trade the news, and with the fickle herd mentality of Wall Street there is always an outlier that could cause a large downtick in the stock. The problem with that thinking is that if one truly subscribes to that he will only have a mattress full of gold dust. The mitigation is that the stock is now on the S&P which will dampen any swings due to day trader profit taking.. JMHO.
That being said. I agree with you that the shrink to profitability playbook is in the trash. Even with a retarded dysfunctional federal government that gives not a tinker's dam about it's own industries, we are on a great trajectory, and as long as UAL is still in stick shaker we can keep our foot on the gas. I AM concerned about that when they do get things going. They will be a very formidable competitor.... One question that stuck in my mind about the conference call was that Ed (I think) said the Virgin JV is set to start on 1 Jan. Shouldn't we be in some sort of contract talks about that? |
Any back door to the AE awards out yet?
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Those of us who wonder "why do all these folks fly back from New York carrying appliances in plastic sacks" now have an answer. The mark up from taxes and stores total 400% on the Sony Play Station in Brazil.
Literally cheaper to fly to New York and buy one. There is a lot of confusion and inaccurate information spreading online about Brazil’s import tax policies online and the PlayStation 4 retail price, so we’d like to set the record straight: of the R$3,999 gamers pay, 63% of the retail price goes to offset the various taxes that are applied in the process of importation. http://b-i.forbesimg.com/davidthier/...0/image001.png Figure mark up around here is about 5 to 10% retail and 7% tax. |
Guys,
Anyone know if I can go to the gate with a DAL Retiree ID card in ATL ?? PM me if sensitive info. Thanks, BG |
AE results are on Deltanet. No surprises...lots of FOs moving to 88 capt, no backfill.
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