Don’t necessarily agree; MCO is low yield, so probably not as high a priority to defend. I wonder what the island yields are, particularly to the other islands we connect to from SJU?

 

Yields are high, but private boat charters and ferries are more reliable.

 

Sounds like Lupi’s and Metropol are about to get busy again….

This thread brings back memories and nightmares from my Eagle days.

 

When were you there with Eagle? I was there end of 06 to the the end of 07.

 

annual vacancy bid? You can only change bases 1 time a year??

 

Speaking of Pepperridge Farms Remembers, they've always been busy. Metropol is my favorite local. Has been since I was a kid; by my teens I would drive with my dad after school and we'd dine in at the location by the airport. They keep expanding all over the metro. I used to have my folks freeze me some congrí con pechuga de pollo y tostones, and USPS me that goodness overnight when I moved away for college to ATL (late 90s). It was also my first stop after getting out the plane during college breaks. Honorable mentions to AirTran and ATA, which would get me home from ATL when mother-D got too expensive for this broke college kid. I'll never forget flying ATL-SJU on an ATA TriStar one time, ridiculous overkill, oh but those leisurely load factors, what a comfy ride lol. Say what you will, life was great back then, everything just went to pot since 9/11. Thanks bin laden.

Regarding Executive Airlines, those ATRs in Eagle livery were also a staple of my childhood memories growing up. They always had them parked on the west end of the north ramp, so it was the first thing you saw through the fence driving in. I used to daydream I'd grab a couple IDTs (they call them paycards) at the guard and fly an F-16 sortie with the home unit, then do milk runs in an Eagle ATR the rest of the week. All in my backyard, next to the ones I love and miss the most. That was my 15 year old version of livin' the dream.

Alas, vipers were gone by '98 and airline domiciles have never lasted there either. So I had to "grow up" and join the legions of begrduged economic transplants up here to white-knuckle the Lost Decade. These days ATL/CLT is probably about as close I'll ever get to home, given MIA cost of living non-starter these days, and my anglo wife's lack of Spanish fluency and unwillingness to take a pay cut as a nurse down there. My username checks....

 

Nice flame-bait. We've been over this, you know the answer. Doesn't affect you.

 

That was a nice picture you just painted. Scarriest part of that story is how expensive Miami is...

 

What makes you think they will share the survey results? Definitely not the norm.

 

That survey makes no sense. “if you’re displaced from your current position, where would you status?” If you’re an FO it only gives you FO as choices. I’m an FO that can hold CA anywhere in the system, mostly as a line holder. If I was to be displaced, I’m not dealing with the BS of commuting to sit (or be paid) in the right seat.

I’m not even bothering with it