Speechless.

Sorry bro! I tried emailing it to you twice. :( Had to let FO Big Bird take the reins and let the world see your most gloriious creation.

I second super as official coed selec-TOR.

That's hilarious! :D

My filter must be in full anti-80 mode. I get all types of filth from my buds. :D

I mean, why didn't someone stop him? And how come what he is doing is so out of sync with everyone else and reality? That's just not something Super, our resident cheerleader aficionado would approve of...

Who bought all of those DC-9's for NWA? :rolleyes:

Who is buying used jets here?

Many do not want to say it, but the major reason the legacies took it in the shorts and ran to the RJ world for one of may Band Aids was airlines like SWA, AAI and Jet Blue with lower labor costs, and very low overhead cherry picking markets left and right. That sent margins through the floor. Add 9-11 and the overwhelming debt that the legacies could no longer pay and we saw a perfect storm.
The money managers that ran the airlines early last decade leveraged the airlines and their pilot groups in hopes it was a fad, like acid washed jeans, when that failed, they used pensions as a way to get scope concessions as another short term fix, when that failed they went in to CH 11, and stripped the costs to a level low enough to compete with the likes of these LLC's. Now the playing field is relatively balanced, and consolidation is the new way to try and increase our margins.

Pilots looks to SWA has a benchmark to strive for when in fact it was that airline that was mostly responsible for the a la carte mentality we all are struggling though today.

There were many mistakes made but hindsight lets us see them clearly. The past is in the rear view mirror, lets learn from it and not repeat it.

Hey, I hear Slow is running for office too:

The Slow Party

Master Chairman Slow. Does that have a ring to it?

Slow, you are way off base here to try to throw stones on one airline or the other. All the man was trying to say was RJS are now flying to alot of old mainline cities that were profitable for years. It keeps on happening today. What do you want to do about it. Talkabout a company that almost went bankrup in 1993. That really addresses the issue.;)

That was great dude!

Carl