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2 of these cities look familiar. Didn't we just announce SAT & AUS to CUN?

Seasonal Continental Service from Three New Cities to Cancun
In addition,Continental Airlines today filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for authority to begin once-weekly nonstop service to Cancun, Mexico, from three new cities: Austin and San Antonio, Texas, and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. These Saturday services, which are subject to government approval, would begin Feb. 19, 2011. In addition, United Airlines applied for authority to place its UA* code on Continental-operated flights between these cities, further enhancing service options for customers traveling to Cancun.

Continental plans to operate the service with Boeing 737-700 aircraft, with seating for 124 customers (12 in first class and 112 in economy). Continental serves 30 destinations in Mexico, more than any other airline from the U.S.Continental currently serves Cancun 76 times weekly from its hubs in Houston, Newark and Cleveland. United currently serves Cancun 31 times weekly from Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington-Dulles.

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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 884123)

Fed Ex has Mountain Air Cargo ...

They also have Empire but have not sold out the majority of their domestic locations. At least not the ones they want to fly to and many they don't. Their feed is simply there to get packages to places their big ships cannot go. But you already knew that.

My guess, their MEC is not trying to sell out mainline in an attempt to go National.

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 884105)

I think our best bet might be the FDX guy. I heard from a friend at the big ALPA boondoggle that Lee M has minimal support - he said even some of the DAL guys don't support him. I guess what goes around comes around.

Scoop

I would submit that based on what some are hearing that is false.

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Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 883958)

FTB, you are frikkin brilliant. Next time, you write the book and I'll do the humor. Awesome. Those t-shirts would sell in LA...but probably only on terminal 5 and half of 6. ;)

I especially like "BROS B4 ESKIMOS". Our merger committee should all be wearing that tshirt when presenting in front of the arbitrators! :D

Carl

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 884105)

I think our best bet might be the FDX guy. I heard from a friend at the big ALPA boondoggle that Lee M has minimal support - he said even some of the DAL guys don't support him. I guess what goes around comes around.

Scoop

Excellent. I hope that's right.

The FDX guy is a good guy...no question.

Carl

Remember the scene in Airport (I think 77) where Dean Martin tries to explain to the kid how a star went fron one side of the aircraft to the other, but they didn't do a 180? That's another kind of math we're talking about: spacial math from Uranus.

Actually, that was from the original, classic 'Airport', out in 1970. :cool:

Mrs. Schultz: Captain, our son has a question. Schuyler, here's our captain.

Schuyler Schultz: [pointing out the window] Before, Virgo and Leo were right there, sir. Now I'm beginning to see Ursa Minor and Cassiopeia. We MUST be turning around.

Capt. Vernon Demerest: You have a young navigator here! Well, I'll tell you son... Due to a Cetcil wind, Dystor's vectored us into a 360-tarson of slow air traffic. Now we'll maintain this Borden hold until we get the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnics.

Schuyler Schultz: Oh... yes... of course!

Mr. Schultz: What did he mean by that, son?

Schuyler Schultz: Never mind, father, I'll tell you later.

PILOT NEGOTIATIONS

Pilot negotiations

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Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 884089)

Here is to hoping the other viable candidate isn't "Age 70" Rice. I know he was misquoted as saying we should raise the age, but the ALPA TV clip suggests he thinks we should be "having that conversation". When Prater last "conversed" on Age 65, our lives were set back five years.

I heard from one attendee that Rice recently was recently discussing the possibility of a looming pilot shortage (I think it was at a BOD meeting). His concern was that we should take steps to help mitigate it.

Wow...

I am concerned with that as well. Additionally, some obviously want regional saftey improvements to be "paid for" by gutting huge numbers of international relief FO's at mainlines with deep Europe 2 pilot ETOPS and 2 man island turns for everyone. That would "mitigate" a whole year's worth of the biggest retirements at each mainline and no one is raising cain about it.

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Originally Posted by Superpilot92 (Post 884171)

PILOT NEGOTIATIONS

Pilot negotiations

That makes you want to turn your stomach while emailing it to everyone. I don't know whether to LOL or be depressed... wow... somebody had their thinking cap on.

WE NEED THAT TO GO VIRAL

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 884125)

First, we must be on to something good.

Second, we need to be so good at what we do that we can be like one of those football teams that can walk up and tell you they're going to run it up the middle, then run it up the middle and still get a first down. Eventually those teams win.

BUT, this is a leisure market is it not? Flooding the market with seats won't be great for us but it looks like we struck a nerve- or UCAL doesn't have much in their playbook.

Looks like moak is set to win it. There's a guy giving a play by play
Of the vote as it's occurring over on the union talk thread. Moak in number 1 position with Stratton (sp?) as 2nd. That's followed by prater and rice. I thought there would be more discussion on this. It will definitly have implications for the delta mec and the dpa push.
Fly2002

Ps. When does that d22 report come out!? I've been waiting forever!!!