Thanks Denny, thats what I was thinking...so why don't they get a positive space in the back like other company individuals going to work?:rolleyes:

Gentlemen,

It must have been about 1000 pages ago when one of you said you knew how to "hotwire" or trick the a/c systems in hotel rooms that are eco friendly green and shut off after 30-40 minutes.

HELP! How do you do that?

This a/c system has made a nice room and nice layover crappy. :(

1) Maybe the F/A meant he/she has the cash? Or the pilots felt they had the cash?
2) I thought you were saying that the management of the company was musing publicly they could buy DAL, which seemed rather foolish. I bet you that they would drop their stock price at least 5% in 20 minutes if they ever started musing about such a thing in public.
3) We agree: 50-seat RJ's have a very ....peculiar way of unlocking the value of the larger company.
4) When you barf in your mouth, be sure to clench your teeth. It saves the larger pieces for later. In case you can't get fed on your next trip.

Red is right on the mark.

Prior to the LBO, NWA owned everything...and had even paid off the Republic merger. Plus the owned outright some VERY expensive property in Japan.

NWA was a very old school company. Financially conservative to a T, even to the point of paying COD for new aircraft and had a lot of money in the bank. Why? Because when you had the long term interests of the company in mind, that's what you did.

Unfortunately, in the "new age", all that did was make NWA a big fat target...like leaving the keys on the roof of your brand new Escalade.

The irony of the situation was that a couple of smart pilot-types saw the danger. They put together a proposal and went to the board and explained what could happen, the dangers, and what to do to prevent it (some kind of poison pill). The board basically patted the pilots on the head and said "awww, nothing like that will happen".

Now the way I heard it (one of the old timers might want to jump in and correct me), is that someone on the board thought that the buy out scenario was a good idea after hearing it from the pilots, resigned from the board, and put together the LBO idea and sold the Beach Boys on it.

Nu

Wow, I didn't know you could do that. I would definitely be interested in learning how to do this.

Which goes to show you no good deed ever goes unpunished.

As far as everything else you wrote, I can think of at least one other airline that played the game in a very, very financially conservative manner.

Alas...

Google PDANET. You will find the answers you need. Its not a free program but withstands updates to your phone so you can keep the OS current. I think its 19 bucks.

The board members initials were GW and he was later busted for allegedly trying to sneak a bong through airport security.

One minor correction - COD (check) for new aircraft and they would always accept delivery on Friday afternoon after the banks had closed, so the check couldn't be deposited until the next Monday...

Hmmm, there must be some rich line employees at said airline... never thought of that... I mean personally, if I was that rich all of a sudden I'd be out on my DHC-2 Beaver, dropping my lines down to nothing and claiming I buy everything on credit cards and Delta pays "pretty good" just nobody thinks I'm super rich. They'd just feel bad for me. But hey, thats just me. :D
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As to the iphone discussion, my 3GS phone if fully charged at 8am will be dead by 8pm if I didn't use it at all. If I used it spairingly, dead by 6. If I used it a fair amount, dead by 3 and a lot its dead by 10am. I am not kidding. About 80% of the time I cannot call the van, my phone is dead. I've heard if you take it off the charger once its at 100% charged then it'll last longer than if it stayed on a charger for hours, but kind of hard to do in the middle of the night.

When flying I have to turn it to airplane mode and then turn it off, if I just turn it off it dies very fast even while off. I like the phone, I just don't like feeling like I am carrying an expensive computer in my pocket that could too easily be lost and the battery is horrific.

Of course, I do abuse pandora from time to time.

ftb;

go to settings, turn off wifi, then go to general and turn off bluetooth and location services. this will make your battery last much longer.