acl65pilot

What is a 165 mean Denny?


What did you get?

CVG767A

I can't believe people had trouble with these questions--it's a little disturbing that so many people couldn't answer even half of them--

acl65pilot

I agree, they were easy questions. The few that may stump most are the ones about committees. Then again, most do not care to know the facts about everything.

Denny Crane

Probably the first time I ever got %100 on anything!

I could see people missing a couple of them but I was really surprised by the demographics too. The questions just weren't really that hard. It's kinda scary how uninformed the average american is.

Denny

acl65pilot

Agreed. They were fairly straight forward. A few like troop numbers may throw a few ppl off.

Bucking Bar

Interesting survey, 11/12ths here. Missed the question on the number of US forces in Afghanistan. As is my personal bias, I included the contractors, many armed, who are over there providing security, housing, infrastructure, transportation and logistical support. The PEW folks should not make the error of not including these hundreds of thousands of contractors who are clearly performing the job typically performed by our armed forces. Kind of like Delta and DCI, in the eyes of the customer there is not a great distinction.

Max Baucus probably has more to do with our personal finances than Michael Jackson, Kate Gosslein (sp?) and Steve Jobs (top three headlines this morning). Besides "Max Baucus" who could forget? Sounds like a character Russell Crowe would kill at the end of a movie. But at the end of this flick the citizens simply get to pay additional taxes and watch the value of their currency decline. So much for happy endings ... thus the fascination with Kate Gosslien's hair extensions ... less painful to contemplate.

What PEW should realize is that 30 year olds are too busy getting laid to worry about bad news.

So back to Delta and the screwing that is about to happen in Japan.

How can this JAL retrenchment not result in our throwing every spare 757, 767 and a handful of 737's into Asia? If not us, there is a lot of capacity coming on line that will back fill. Is the plan to have JAL fly Delta pax, like Alaska & Air France? In other words is JAL outsourcing to Delta, or is DAL going to route pax to JAX in exchange for access?

Bucking Bar

ALPA at United going on the scope offensive:
Ms. Morse is also on the Board of Directors of United.

Denny Crane

I'm kinda wondering if JAL is now going to be the "cheaper" labor group and hence will Delta management want to see them flying our pax around via a joint venture/code share? We better be VERY careful here.

Denny

acl65pilot

Valid fear IMO.

Depends on the details. I bet we become DIP if we win the deal. AMR is upping their money in it, but either offer really is eyewash when you look at JAL's balance sheet. What it comes down to is revenue stream, and Skyteam wins that hands down.

Our Skyteam alliance bring DAL and AF billions in premium traffic that we would not otherwise have. JAL is looking at that and the East West flow out of Tokyo would work very well with JAL. Add to that if they keen their South routes it would be a decent partnership.

PilotFrog

Sweet I got a 100%.
No to do my biding, maybe I can get 100% there too.