True, although we'd have to make sure we could still afford to keep our EVP of West Coast Pilot Hiring (Brad Tilden). :D

Speaking of MEC Chairmen and ALPA paid possitions, anyone know why our just replaced ALPA National President's March bid award (NYC 767 ER wide report) shows a whole month of "ALPA" and 77 hours pay?

I thought he was going to come back to fly the line? Why is he still on ALPA trip drops all month in March? Has he got another full time ALPA job now?

Yeah, like we did in '09 when the company said we were over staffed, but hey, thanks for the LOA allowing us to ignore TLV DALPA. (Abused 88B on reserve)

Emirates rejects Delta’s apology over terrorism remarks
Delta’s chief executive Richard Anderson associated the 9/11 terrorist attack with Gulf airlines this week
Staff Report
February 19, 2015
Dubai: Emirates has rejected an apology from Delta Air Lines, one of America’s major carriers, after its chief executive, Richard Anderson, this week associated the 9/11 terrorist attack with Gulf airlines.
“We believe that the statements made this week by [Mr] Anderson were deliberately crafted and delivered for specific effect. This brings into question his credibility as a CEO of a US public listed company, as well as the integrity of the submission which his airline has submitted to the US authorities,” an Emirates spokesperson told Gulf News in an emailed statement on Thursday.
Delta’s Anderson told CNN on Monday he saw a “great irony” in UAE airlines criticising bankruptcy laws as state aid after they were accessed by US domestic carriers following 9/11 since most of the hijackers came from the region.
Delta later apologised for the remark.
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Responding to Anderson’s initial comments, Emirates President Tim Clark told CNN on Wednesday he was “a little bit concerned that [Mr] Anderson crossed the line in some of the statements he made with regard to what went on with regard to 9/11.”
“I know that has caused great offence in this part of the world, and I’m sure it will be dealt with at the governmental and state level,” he added.
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Delta — along with American Airlines and United Airlines — are pushing the US government to change its open skies agreement after they presented the government with a 55-page document that they claim shows the major Gulf airlines — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — have benefited from $40 billion (Dh147 billion) in state aid since 2004. The document has not been made public.
Clark told CNN the claims were “unsubstantiated”. He also refuted the claims last week in an emailed statement that was sent to the media, including Gulf News. Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and CEO of Emirates airline and Group, told Bloomberg last week the US airlines should offer a better service if the want to compete with the Gulf.
Qatar Airways chief, Akbar Al Baker, has also responded to the allegations telling CNN on Tuesday “[Mr] Anderson should be doing his job improving and competing with us instead of just crying wolf for his shortcomings in the way the airline is run.”
The Delta boss “should be ashamed to bring the issue of terrorism to try to cover his inefficiency in running an airline,” he added.
Etihad Airways is yet to comment on the matter.
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I read the update. There's a DPA thread for this down with the I Love Heidi bumper stickers in Union Talk for you, but I don't believe the GM gets paid that, it's more 990 crap. Didn't someone post the job opening a while back? Isn't she like an astronaut or something? You might also want to take your self proclaimed business accumen over to Tim's house and explain to him what a liability means versus a debt on all these fancy tax forms. I think you might find that chart has a gross error of around $112,000,000 in debt that doesn't exist. They might want to consider hiring an accountant to help with the fancy form things. Also, didn't Timmy file a DOL complaint last year about fraudulent tax returns and a complaint with a Congressman? I assume that led to more imagined malfeasance?

They're Western savvy enough to know that when in doubt, play the oppressed victim card. They are completely attempting to gloss over their logical conclusion that US airlines should have pretty much just liquidated after 9-11 and they could just be doing it all…provided we pay them to take our jets and borrow from them to defend them at our expense. :rolleyes:

An ironic [victim] response given the building exposure and pressure on their modern day nuevo medieval labor standards, let alone their megalomaniac business model and merchant marine ambitions.

The only thing we should be sorry for is not limiting them to the number of flights per day that our airlines do to their actual country, not trying to shut down the facist "Bank of Boeing" widebody subsidies sooner, and not changing our tax law to eliminate the expat loophole that they use as a primary recruitment tool against us in an effort to poach our industry out from under us.

Richard Anderson.

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We also need APC to get rid of the incredibly annoying Emirites ad placed where your thumb can't help but hit it when using a IPAD!

It doesn't end well regardless.

Not sure I would have brought up terrorism. I probably would have brought up a lack of labor laws. Talk about how employees are held against their will and paid wages equivalent to slavery. Talk about how a 3 miilon person state has more wide bodies on order than the entire US airline industry has planes and ask how it's possible to pay for these aircraft if there are no government subsidies. I'm not CEO though. It's not easy to answer questions like that under fire when you have seconds to come up with your thoughts.