Its a valid point in a way. Post like you think the 4th floor knows exactly who you are and reads what you say. Post like your wife is reading what you wrote and looking at the pictu... crap. I have 1800 posts huh, this may take a while...

That was really rude, but it made me laugh out loud..

Cheap shot, but it was just sitting there saying "hit me!"

All in jest, of course.

Hey!! Where did you get my baby picture!!!:D:D

Ferd

Carl,

I will be more than happy to fly with you anytime, unfortunately I don't see it happening in the near future... (Going to the DC-9 and all that...):)

Out of curiosity, what categories I running fat and lazy like monday morning quarterbacks and which ones look like they just went 12 rounds like Favre ahd to yesterday?

I kind of want to say with an ALV in the low 70s the MD88 ATL B has been fat, I know guys who haven't flown all month (they had vacation) but then I look ahead and it looks like things might pick up and the greenslips were flowing yesterday and Sunday. Just curious.

I also understand some 737s are "coming out of SLC" and coming into ATL? Does that really mean a draw down in SLC?

Really, I thought this was you: YouTube - Ninja Baby

Exactly. It isn't the 4th floor you have to worry about. It is the players from Building A in MSP that moved south. I've worked for these guys for 23 years, and they are a very efficient team. Seen a former NWA mechanic lately? Now they are doing what they do best in Atlanta, and this forum is a petri dish. I could care less about what happens to some putz venting or anonymously dumping on me, but boy do some of you have a lesson you are going to learn.

Seriously??? or to keep the masess from raising their voice?

Take a break and stop threatening us. I am a "new" hire and where I am coming from used to take care of losers like you. Don't push it looser or I am coming after you. I know well too much of who you are and what you stand for, don't even think you are adding any good to this forum so just back off. Seriously, I mean it.

Well to steer the discussion back to the optimistic stage:

I had a phone call from a an old friend in the Pacific Rim, deeply affected by the JAL BK. I empathized with him over what is and will be an extremely painful time on his co-workers and their way of life.

The reason for his calling was to give his take on what this will look like in the short-medium-long term. He is ok financially and so I trusted his perspective as being a little more objective than could be expected.

To sum it up, good things MAY be on the way for us (DAL, n & s). I would even venture to guess that it is more likely than not....but of course all deals could be scuttled at the last minute. Without getting into the details he laid out, I could point out that:

A. financing is finally shaking loose out there, especially for those perceived to be best in class
B. JAL will be smaller....publicly stated
C. DAL's team has said and made all the right moves, and frankly has the subtlety needed in that part of the world
D. They also have the subtlety and contacts to make anti-trust much more of a non-issue on this side of the big pond and have been working that for much longer than I would have thought..
E. big jets, medium jets....just about everything except lil' jets are in the term sheets being tossed about for our side...

My hope is that just like the long ride to Disney in the summer, when my kids are griping about everything from the seat belts to the gummy bears under their butts....it all falls away when the BIG GATES come into sight with potentials they never imagined....

I'm hopeful for us while more than a little sad for my bud...this is a zero sum industry in the end.

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