Nice try Mr. Newk, you can't ungod yourself. It's not your choice. You are the chosen one. Chosen by the committee for involuntary ordaining and once that velvet rope is moved and you walk in the club you never get to walk back out. :D

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Man, I hope the DC9s keep sticking around. In the effort to take back markets from DCI nothing beats a 9 for offering more seats to a market saturated with full CRJs but not necessarily filling up a 88.

I see ATL-PHF was one of those. They've gone from 5-7 or more CRJ200s to a few CRJ700s, always full, to 1 88 flight a day in the summer to 1 year round to now 3-4 88 fights a day with sometimes 737s and DC9s. The way I see it there is enough demand in February to fill up 1 of those 88s and the others go out with 110-130 seats full in a 142 seat jet but sometimes as little as 50-90. Before someone decides to yank 88s out of the market I'd hope the 9 would be used before a CRJ900 is put back in.

All hail the 88 and 9.

Is the old guy, sorry....mini-god, wearing a mumu? :)

A few problems with this picture. The beard interferes with the oxygen mask. NewK's signature is not on the cover page of the volume 1. Noone is wearing a hat. The old guy has his arm around the young chick. No underboob.

Other than that, decent CRM.

"Indiana Jones carries one"

"Yeah well so does Joy Behar"

B-737 Replacement
 

Boeing: "We're gonna do a new airplane."



Boeing CEO Jim McNerney: "We're gonna do a new airplane" (Update1) - FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis


"What we've seen so far is Airbus focused on their current customer base, which has shown some vulnerability to the CSeries. That doesn't mean that as they get deeper in the development they're not going to approach our customer base. I think they will. The NEO, on paper closes, the value gap that we have enjoyed on a typical cash on cash analysis, we tend to do better. And I think part of the rationale of the neo is to close that gap. Now, will that put some pressure on our margins. Yes. Maybe, but they've got to complete the development. We're gonna do a new airplane. We're not done evaluating this whole situation yet, but our current bias is to not re-engine, is to move to an all-new airplane at the end of the decade, beginning of the next decade.

"It's our judgment that our customers will wait for us, rather than move to an airplane that will obsolete itself when they do a new airplane. I understand why they're doing it, we haven't seen the need for it yet. I feel pretty comfortable we can defend our customer base both because they're not going ahead of us, they're catching up to us and because we're going to be doing a new airplane that will go beyond the capability of what the neo can do. I feel very good about our position there."

I was living in Dallas during our strike. On one of our picketing days, the APA prez came over to show support (lots of AA and Delta guys walked with us). Anyway, we were all amazed that this guy told us that the APA asked Clinton to put them back to work. Kind of a dumb thing to tell a bunch of guys actively on strike. We weren't as big as AA but we did have a monopoly in the upper Midwest and Clinton didn't put us back to work.

Sorry for the boring history lesson.

Ferd

Clinton and subsequent presidents learned from that and now instead of using the PEB they just instruct the NMD to never release an airline to self help. I should caveat that with major airline. Niche market airlines have very little overall effect on the economy.

Yes you are correct that the current make up of the NLRB is pro labor, but that is pro labor organizing, which means more dues money which translates into more money in a certain party's coffers. I submit to you that even pro labor presidents are not going to release a major airline labor group to strike, regardless of party affiliation or political leanings.

Ah, the NWA strike. Forgot about that one. Rumor that I read was Bill called up the leader of the AFL-CIO and he told Bill to let you guys strike but not APA because ALPA is AFL-CIO or something to that effect. I have no verification of that story.