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Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1747287)

Earnings are out. At a glance, they look great.

Leverage.

Upon closer examination, the fuel hedging "gurus" didn't fare so well.

Plunging oil prices should be a boon for us. Instead they costs DAL an additional $347 million charge for the quarter.

Brilliant.

Earnings conference call in 10 minutes

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Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1747287)

Earnings are out. At a glance, they look great.

Leverage.

Not so much if APA only got 5% like Jerry said.

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Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1747323)

Which engine? GE?

Rolls only on the 350s

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Originally Posted by Xray678 (Post 1747122)

I would love to hear how you transition to LBP without many pilots taking a pay cut.

That said, I would be against it no matter what. I like the option now to choose a bigger airplane and more pay, or a smaller airplane with less pay but a better schedule. I believe that would go away with LGP.

It would take awhile to transition, and there is zero reason for anyone to take a paycut. Just curious, why do you like having to choose between QOL or pay? That makes no sense to me. I'd like to know the pay is there, and all I have to worry about is QOL, but I guess to many QOL is a negotiable item... don't get it.

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1746762)

I know you didn't.

Just adding a perspective to the public policy dilemma. If we make it "illegal" then some will follow the path of undocumented aliens and hide, which makes it much more difficult to find and quarantine suspected cases.

Which is precisely the reason they aren't shutting down the visa process in West Africa or shutting down flights from infected areas, in effect "closing the borders." That would derail the super bullet Amnesty Train that's barreling down the tracks. If you close the borders to West Africa and are afraid that they'll go the illegal route, it's not a great leap of logic to demand they close the southern border. And that just can't happen...

For those that have the USAtoday app or actually have a paper copy read the Jameis State article in the sports section. The author nails exactly what college football has become.

Easy way to fix it. Each scholarship a school has is for 5 years. If a athlete flunks out, leaves early, goes to prison or violates assorted NCAA rules they don't get to use that scholarship again until the 5 years has passed. If on the other hand a athlete graduates in 3 or 4 years they can continue him on scholarship for 5 years to work on a masters and they get that scholarship back right then to reissue. For every 5% above 50% a school achieves in athlete graduations they get additional scholarships.

The other option is just give up on the farce that is college football today and let each school hire a professional team. The schools would save a bunch of money not having to create a bunch of fake independent study classes.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1747383)

I read that, and it is spot on. FSU should be ashamed. Sorry. Of the FL schools that are in Div 1 or FBS... they are the only one that I could pull for. Not any more. I hope Notre Dame whips dey ***.

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1747361)

Rolls only on the 350s

No the 350 has rolls and ge.