Originally Posted by RockyBoy

Looked into that as well, and Verizon will not activate a "smartphone" unless you pay $30/mo for the unlimited data package. Some of the "less smartphones" are only $10/mo. I have a Palm phone now and have never had the data package and I just wanted another Palm phone but cannot get a new one now unless I do the data package with it. No way around it even if I pay full price for the phone.

Originally Posted by Sink r8

You must be quite old. I can't remember anyone in my lifetime seriously laughing at Southwest (the business model). We may have laughed at Southwest (the pilots), or Southwest (the airborne comedy show), or their "Burbank fuel-hedge", and spent a lot of time asking whether they know the difference between a taxi and a take-off roll, but I don't think we've underestimated the model. Ever.

If anything the industry and the public are collectively guilty of buying enough into the hype, that they made the legend true by running scared at every opportunity to fight.

Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy

Another thing I can't stand, whenever RA speaks ... or other managers for that reason, they never include SWA in our "competitive set" or airlines. I'm tired of hearing how we are doing against UAL, AA, USAir, and CAL. I want to know how we're doing against the big elephant in the room that is SWA.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

It will change when people stop paying for it. With cell towers over their max with all the data these plans and fees are not going anywhere. Texting is different as the data overtook it.

Originally Posted by NuGuy

I don't think you will see APDL for the iPhone anytime soon. ADPL always depended on the easy uploading/downloading of data (over a sync conduit) that Palms/WM provided to really make it work well.

Yes it works very well on my Palm.

Additionally, I THINK the last time I looked at APDL, they had discontinued use of stand alone programs for importing your schedules to a web-based system (meaning you can to be online to use it), and you HAD to use Logbook Pro to get your data out of APDL, which meant that you had to buy LBP if you were going to use the data in any way (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this).

I have both and they work together like a champ with a few exceptions. Major problem is tech support.

It's really too bad, because nothing worked as well as APDL for doing what it does....keep your times and check for legalities. All the other logbook programs for the iPhone either try to be all things to all pilots (GA, Corporate, etc) or are filled with bloat to the point they're almost unusable.

Could not agree more..

Now the last time I talked with the Flightline people, they SAID they were working on an iPhone app. No dates were given, but they said it was "in testing".

I look forward to see that.

You could even set it up to scan for open time, do swaps or other PCS transactions, check the reserve list, and whatever else your little heart desired.

Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, no I got a big heart.

Just my opinion...

Nu

Originally Posted by satchip

So which one of you financial geniuses is going to parse this?

Summary of DELTA AIR LINES INC /DE/ - Yahoo! Finance