Street is talking total SD may be talking operational.

We NEVER make money in the first quarter. I'll be amazed if we actually post a profit. Losing only 4 cents a share is outstanding. If we beat that estimate the stock will get a nice pop. Full year numbers for this year ought to make for a very nice Valentine's Day next year.

Gotta throw this out, I haven't flown in... weeks... but taxiway L open all the way to 27R? I went down the jetway to do another professional walk around and the Captain was finishing it, and he buys the beer.. or coke.

or cokes.

ya'll just settle in, I'm a going to be up for awhile.

I never get jury duty.

But my dad used to get it all of the time when we lived in Hampton but he was always the first sent home. They probably just didn't like the idea of having the white haired Navy Captain and Preacher dressed in a suit sitting on the jury.

Hmm I've only had it once in my life too. They also told me a few years ago when i got it, that if you are called again within 8 years you can decline. Must be a TN thing i guess.

Metro Airport asks travelers' help to gain Detroit-Dubai air service



12:54 PM, April 23, 2012 |



By Ellen Creager

Detroit Free Press Travel Writer


Vote for Dubai!

Detroit Metro Airport is using social media to pressure either Emirates Airlines or Delta Air Lines to add nonstop service from Detroit to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


Hoping air traveler pleas will grab airlines’ attention, Metro officials have set up an online petition for service, arguing that the largest Arab-American population outside the Middle East lives in metro Detroit. Dubai also is a direct gateway to 17 destinations in India – a spot many Michiganders and auto-related business travelers need to fly.


Travelers can go to Detroit to Dubai dot com to sign the petition.


“We’ve actually had meetings with the airlines already to talk to them about the possibility of service, but obviously I’d rather have a large number of people sign the petition,” said Joe Cambron, director of air service development. These days, routes are not set up just based on backroom discussions, he said: “Airlines like to see people responding to online petitions.“


One reason for urgency is that Detroit is trying to get nonstop service to Dubai before Chicago does. Right now, the Midwest has no nonstop passenger service to Dubai. Emirates is growing quickly and poised to become the largest airline in the world within three years. It flies nonstop from Dubai to Houston, Dallas, New York JFK, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It adds Washington Dulles in September.


Delta already flies nonstop from Atlanta to Dubai.


A Dubai destination would serve metro Detroit’s Iraqi, Lebanese and Yemeni communities as well as business and leisure travelers headed to the Middle East and beyond, Cambron said. Although many in metro Detroit have family back in Lebanon, “we can’t get nonstops to Beirut at this point because of security requirements,” he said.


The chance to link Detroit more quickly with India also is important for airport growth because it’s the largest country in terms of airline traffic to which Metro Airport has no nonstop service. About 240 people fly back and forth between Detroit and India daily, Cambron said.


Emirates flies huge aircraft, including the Airbus A380, but Metro could get certification for any plane it used, Metro spokesman Michael Conway said.


"We put the petition up already. We have not marketed it all. We accumulated 100 signatures just from people happening to run into it. it’s a good sign," he said.

Patience lads, Qatar announced service to Detroit starting in 2013.;)

Some reason this all that sank in when I read that :confused:

Yep, they are hiring DEC's right now because they cannot find enough sim time to upgrade ppl.

The only thing limiting the pace at which they grow, is their ability to train pilots......

they are leaving out a detail or two. There was direct DTW-Amman, Jordon service on Royal Jordanian for a year or two, but I guess the market couldn't fill it. Now it goes DTW-Montreal-Amman.