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Originally Posted by PilotFrog
(Post 1178629)
I just read the same thing. They get them all in 4 years as well. Guess we can kiss any ratio code share with the Chinese carriers goodbye. But don't worry we will have all those 717s to fly around at least until the scope we give up makes them obsolete when the super efficient 100 sweaters come around and make the DC-9 in all of its variations obsolete.
Also seems to me if we gave pinnacle $70M or $30M plus the $40M they owed us or whatever, plus what we gave Gol didn't we really make a profit last quarter instead of a $35M loss? |
Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 1178709)
Actually, the B717's would likely be used to replace the 50 seaters they plan on parking.
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Originally Posted by georgetg
(Post 1178625)
Slowly, the financial analysts are coming around:
Analysis: Delta's refinery bid looks better on second glance I wouldn't be surprised if two months from now the "analysts" will be chiding UAL and SWA for not having refineries... |
Originally Posted by Jack Bauer
(Post 1178716)
That may or may not be true. Time will tell. My point remains...getting these 717's does not mean hiring or mainline Delta pilots moving up. All they have to do is park other airplanes in the mainline fleet and we are back to square one. But for a few months we can brag about better production balances, more mainline block hours and our big victory:rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by johnso29
(Post 1178709)
Actually, the B717's would likely be used to replace the 50 seaters they plan on parking.
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Originally Posted by Columbia
(Post 1178721)
On more lower paying airframes, no less.
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
(Post 1178714)
The harsh reality is there will never be a way to enforce a production balance with state run carriers. In that light it is also hard for Dal to have a jv or expanded code share with a state run airline.
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Originally Posted by scambo1
(Post 1178725)
Statements like this are why anyone but the junior-most pilots of old have acted like that flying is beneath us.
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Originally Posted by Jack Bauer
(Post 1178716)
That may or may not be true. Time will tell. My point remains...getting these 717's does not mean hiring or mainline Delta pilots moving up. All they have to do is park other airplanes in the mainline fleet and we are back to square one. But for a few months we can brag about better production balances, more mainline block hours and our big victory:rolleyes:
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On that note, I'm going to get up off this beotch. Someone posted this on the ALPA forum (and I thank them for it):
The Most Dangerous Thing You'll Do All Day By Bill Phillips and the Editors of Men's Health Mar 30, 2011 We stand around a lot here at Men’s Health. In fact, a few of us don’t even have office chairs. Instead, we write, edit, and answer e-mails—a lot of e-mails—while standing in front of our computers. All day long. Why? It all started last summer, when Assistant Editor Maria Masters came across a shocking study in the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (one of dozens of research journals we comb each month as we put together the magazine). Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks. That’s right—I said 54 percent! Masters immediately called the lead researcher at Pennington, a professor named Peter Katzmarzyk. Turns out, this wasn’t the first study to link sitting and heart disease. Similar research actually dates back to 1953, when British researchers found that (sitting) bus drivers were twice as likely to die of heart attacks as (standing) trolley operators. Here’s the most surprising part: “We see it in people who smoke and people who don’t,” Katzmarzyk told Masters. “We see it in people who are regular exercisers and those who aren’t. Sitting is an independent risk factor.” In other words, it doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how well you eat. If you sit most of the day, your risk of leaving this world clutching your chest—whether you’re a man or women—as much as doubles. This raised a rather obvious question: Why? Truth is, the researchers aren’t sure. But Marc Hamilton, Ph.D., one of Katzmarkzyk’s colleagues, suspects it has to do with an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase (LPL), which breaks down fat in the bloodstream and turns it into energy. Hamilton found that standing rats have ten times more of the stuff coursing through their bodies than laying rats. It doesn’t matter how fit the rats are; when they leave their feet, their LPL levels plummet. Hamilton believes the same happens in humans. |
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