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Old 03-28-2012 | 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Does Hawaii have slots to HND? Buy Hawaii. Use 330s there, some 767 flying out of NRT just cuz, get the 744s into HND to our hubs, 773s to fly over Japan mixed with 744 and 772 where appropriate.

And MD88s to take care of the ladies back home.
Yes HAA has one HND slot from HNL. We have two.

They are flying in to China as well.

Depending on DAL's long term business plan and route strategy, HNL would make a decent connecting hub. Not great, but decent.

On top of the HND issues, KAL constantly undercuts our fares out of Soul.
Old 03-28-2012 | 05:09 AM
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Check Essential retirement planning:

Mega Millions rockets to record $476 million

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Welcome to jackpot freak-out.


Even major media outlets like Good Morning America are going gaga over Mega Millions smashing through the $400 million barrier, soaring toward the half-billion-dollar mark, and rewriting the record book.
Forty-seven tickets, including two in Pennsylvania and two in New Jersey, just missed last night. They matched the first five numbers - 9, 19, 34, 44 and 51 - but not the Mega Ball of 24.
Most will win $250,000 - instead of more than 1,000 times that much.
The annuity jackpot rocketed to $476 million for Friday night's drawing - obliterating the old U.S. mark of $390 million set by Mega Millions in March 2007.
The $120 million jump in the annuity also was a record, beating the $115 million also witnessed in March 2007.
The cash jackpot clobbered its own record, catapulting from $259 million to $341 million - $101 million more than the second-biggest cash jackpot ever, the $240 million reached by Mega Millions in January last year. (See list of record jackpots: http://bit.ly/Hd1oJ8.)
If piled in a single stack of $1 bills, the cash windfall could start at the bottommost spot of the ocean and still tower above Mount Everest.If paid at the rate of $1 every minute, the payout would take more than 600 years.
Old 03-28-2012 | 05:10 AM
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Check Essential retirement planning:

Mega Millions rockets to record $476 million

By Peter Mucha
Inquirer Staff Writer


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Welcome to jackpot freak-out.


Even major media outlets like Good Morning America are going gaga over Mega Millions smashing through the $400 million barrier, soaring toward the half-billion-dollar mark, and rewriting the record book.
Forty-seven tickets, including two in Pennsylvania and two in New Jersey, just missed last night. They matched the first five numbers - 9, 19, 34, 44 and 51 - but not the Mega Ball of 24.
Most will win $250,000 - instead of more than 1,000 times that much.
The annuity jackpot rocketed to $476 million for Friday night's drawing - obliterating the old U.S. mark of $390 million set by Mega Millions in March 2007.
The $120 million jump in the annuity also was a record, beating the $115 million also witnessed in March 2007.
The cash jackpot clobbered its own record, catapulting from $259 million to $341 million - $101 million more than the second-biggest cash jackpot ever, the $240 million reached by Mega Millions in January last year. (See list of record jackpots: http://bit.ly/Hd1oJ8.)
If piled in a single stack of $1 bills, the cash windfall could start at the bottommost spot of the ocean and still tower above Mount Everest.If paid at the rate of $1 every minute, the payout would take more than 600 years.

Heck, it is worth about five bucks of stupidity just for a random chance. That would be worth a good portion of our new contract!!
Old 03-28-2012 | 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by JungleBus
Stinson 108 FTW!



Too bad the old Franklins are so hard to find parts for, anymore. Personally, I love flying the good ole C170...




(actual flying club C170 I fly)
Drool.........

Super Stinson on floats, time to buy a lotto ticket!
Old 03-28-2012 | 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Heck, it is worth about five bucks of stupidity just for a random chance. That would be worth a good portion of our new contract!!
Agreed.
Somebody's gonna win that thing. Might as well be me.
Old 03-28-2012 | 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Yes HAA has one HND slot from HNL. We have two.

They are flying in to China as well.

Depending on DAL's long term business plan and route strategy, HNL would make a decent connecting hub. Not great, but decent.

On top of the HND issues, KAL constantly undercuts our fares out of Soul.

HNL is no where near the great circle route from mainland to Asia. Maybe we could use Shemya?
Old 03-28-2012 | 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Check Essential
Agreed.
Somebody's gonna win that thing. Might as well be me.
Move over. Could be me!

I'll buy a $1 ticket for this chance.

I did notice it went from like $359M to $476M or something. It made a $100M jump.

The thing is, once someone wins this (me) that jackpot goes all the way down to $12M! What a fall. What a bummer if you win that $12M right after someone wins $476M. You'd walk into the lotto office looking for the $5M you didn't have last week and people would actually feel bad for you considering someone walked in and got $242M in cash, even after taxes, the week prior.
Old 03-28-2012 | 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
The 777 LR which UAL does not have can carry more weight then the 747 in addition to more cube in cargo with the passenger seats full. Its overall cargo capability is better in almost all respects. The 747 can carry more weight on short haul flights but the 777LR owns the rest of the spectrum in both cube and weight.

The other advantage of the 777LR is it's range. We did the math the other night and we came up with about 20-21 hours with full fuel (330,000lbs). Of course if you're full of fuel you're not full of cargo and pax too, that's why it's usually "Load Optimized" coming out of Joburg.

Some nights it's 17 hours flying time (plus alternate fuel, etc.) and the field elevation at JNB is 5,500, which is 300 feet higher than DEN. The most fuel I've had on board is 310,000, only because it was snowing in ATL (a year ago Jan.) I've never seen them fill it all the way up with fuel. BUT I have seen the note, "Must burn fuel to get down to max T/O wt."

The 777 is a "range" airplane, whereas the 747 is an "Uplift" airplane. If you need tons of stuff, and 400 pax, moved a shorter range (12-14 hours), use the 747. If instead you have less pax, and some cargo, but it needs to go a lot further, non-stop (16-17 hrs.) use the 777.
Old 03-28-2012 | 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
You'd walk into the lotto office looking for the $5M you didn't have last week and people would actually feel bad for you considering someone walked in and got $242M in cash, even after taxes, the week prior.
What would also be bad is splitting it. What if you had the winning ticket and found out the next day that some plumber in New Jersey also had the numbers.
Bummer.
Old 03-28-2012 | 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp
I heard they re-equipped the 767 with this panel to keep newK from getting too bored:


NewK is never bored:







Carl
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