No... I think we are happy with Lane Kiffin thank you just the same. :D

Ferd, thanks for that. I'm starting to see more and more folks on here that "get it," and that's heartening to me. We will always have the 2% that want to complain about the location of their new bigger slice of cheese because the old, moldy cheese got moved. They will point to the fact that they "expected" better cheese than we delivered anyway, so whatever is accomplished is a failure...:( Thankfully, that vocal little group is continuing to be overrun by the successes that we've achieved together.

You can't really go by the las bid. ATL had a ton of displacements. So very few people, DAL-N or DAL-S, were able to get into ATL.

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Hey, I'm try'en to get out to SGN before it goes away.........any intel;)

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Ferd
I think you need to bid either PTN# 6095 on the 17th or #6092 on the 16th. Both our double SGN's with either two 50+hr layovers and a SPN turn or a double SGN with a 50+ and a 28+hr layover with two SPN turns. Either way only 6 or 8 legs in 12 days. Plus you keep your room in NRT for 3 or 4 days while doing the SPN turns.

Of course you would have to give up your SPN Tour Guide duties to become a SGN guide. I am hoping you would not miss BF in his Speedo poolside in SPN.

Listen, I know what you guys are all saying. My point is that Alaska pilots are perfectly happy to haul Delta customers in our system. We'd rather not be assimilated, thank you very much.

Yeah I've got both on the wish list (I'm a rotation bidder). I'm sorta nervous about 53 hours anywhere but what the heck. May do 6092 for the one 29 and one 53. Orrrrrrrr may just do my usual SPN & GUM:D

Geeze, heard stories about BF on the beach. I don't hang with the guy, I hear enough just going down on the flight. He doesn't like me much, I rarely agree with him and tell him so:D

Ferd

Got any good SGN intel? (I don't think I'm interested in the tunnels)

From what I have heard, so is DAL management, and that is not a slam at management or anyone else for that matter. It is a fact that I have heard with my own ears.

Sadly for both Delta and Alaska pilots there wont be much choice in the matter. Once the JAL deal is done look for the loser to go after Alaska. If Delta gets JAL then I think AMR will come after Alaska in a big way. If AMR retains JAL then Delta will move to protect the Alaska feed.

I'm sure you are, but us Delta guys would rather haul them ourselves, especially us West coast guys. Since us growing internally will cost us alot of cash and do nothing but dilute yields further on the West coast, I think that us "merging" with AK via a stock swap or something of that nature would be the best move financially speaking. If that happens, none of us have any say in how things will go down. An arbitration panel will decide what to do with us and precedent shows some sort of category and class ratioed integration.

Guys,

I don't see how we can have a thread about us, and about a merger. Some of the stuff we write here is purely "feel-good" kind of stuff, and I think it must look arrogant from the outside.

Besides, I don't see how anyone can see clearly on any one particular topic, when this thread is a collection of them. I've tried to spin this discussion off, to a new thread titled "Dedicated DAL/ALK Discussion Anyone?" so that we can get more football and chicks in here.

I appreciate it if anyone gives it a read, and maybe helps shift this discussion there.

Thanks,

Sink r8.