I'll try to grab some.... thanks

 

We got us some smart fella's around here!!!!!

You guys should hurry up and start running this show. What's taking you so long?

 

They'd be welcome in Council 66 or at the MEC to head the Strategic Collections and Reconciliations Committee.

 

Hey FtB;

You do not like that phrase?

It can be used to describe many things. Just figured I would throw that one out there.

 

Oh no I like it. I had to look it up though. Like what I found. Just wondering if it has to do with the slot swap, JAL or HND?

btw, its those seaseme st punks that are the problem...

 

It has to do with anything you want it do do with. It could characterize a few things.

 

Soooo... you're saying there's some outlandish stuff coming, but it's really a faker move by whoever is doing it? Or have you just been bored and reading Wikipedia?

 

I was hoping we might be hearing more about this soon:

If the DOT order is implemented in its current form, the transaction will likely not go forward simply because the economic benefit will no longer exist. That will result in the loss of business opportunities for our company, the loss of increased choices for small and medium-sized communities and the loss of job growth opportunities for Delta pilots and our fellow employees.

Put another way, the DOT will have regulated a perfect trifecta of failure—a true lose-lose-lose scenario for the carriers, the consumer and labor.
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The DOT has established a 30-day period for comments on the proposed grant of their petition. In the coming days and weeks, and after considering various options, I may ask for your help in a grassrootseffort to let the DOT know that their decision, as it stands, is unacceptable.

 

Hey Delta: Did you steal my tape-recording pen?
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While we do get an occasional bender of a story coming out of the professionally run Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, there's really nothing that comes to mind to compare to this gem coming out of our friends in Atlanta. Read onward.

The gist:

Executives from Delta Air Lines were chatting after a meeting with city of Atlanta negotiators ended when they discovered a high-tech pen on the table. It appeared to be surreptitiously recording their conversation.

Ben DeCosta, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport's general manager, admits that he left the gadget -- he loves gadgets -- on the table with its recorder running. But he insists that he did not intend to record Delta's negotiators, and he even charged later that Delta stole his pen.

The extraordinary story emerged in public documents obtained last week by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

That's good stuff. D/FW Airport and American are still in talks for the use agreement there - maybe the parties should offer to examine writing implements for the other side. (Actually, my queries about the Use Agreement talks haven't elicited much of anything in terms of real friction between the sides and I'd expect terms for a new deal at D/FW to come together over the next few months. I asked D/FW CEO Jeff Fegan about it and he said he wasn't losing any sleep over the Use Agreement talks.)

 

Last one and this is just fwiw:

How much of that airline ticket is going to fuel? It’s an important question for travelers as oil prices continue to fluctuate, affecting ticket costs.

Starting today, Spirit Airlines’ customers can go to Spirit Airlines - cheap tickets, cheap flights, discount airfare, cheap hotels, cheap car rentals, cheap travel to find out. In the name of transparency, Spirit is offering a chart that shows the amount of fuel used for various trip lengths, the current price of fuel and how much this means for each passenger traveling one way. For example, a customer who is paying $137 for a one-way ticket from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Los Angeles can see that $78 of that fare is spent on fuel.

Spirit Airlines Shows Fuel Costs - In Transit Blog - NYTimes.com