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Elliot , 10-11-2011 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Who was that congresswoman or senator to be who made the comment "It is great to be here today with the great unwashed"? Not realizing what that really meant.

Katie Couric: It?s great to be traveling America among ?the great unwashed? Hot Air

#77882

forgot to bid , 10-11-2011 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Timbo

And just think of the fun the A320 Reserves will have, trying to cover all 3 airports!

Hello? Yellow Cab? I need a ride to Laguardia... no wait, now it's Newark...No, no, now it's JFK, and HURRY!

Yeah... gotta love the $100 taxi + tolls + tips to get from Queens to EWR.

How do NYC crews handle that? Because I see 4-days that start and end in EWR on the 88 that show at 0600 and end at 2300.

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forgot to bid , 10-11-2011 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Gearjerk

Katie Couric: It?s great to be traveling America among ?the great unwashed? Hot Air

Oh it was her. Yeah she is a politician too!

That's pretty funny:

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It’s not as bad as it sounds. She didn’t mean it in a “these ignorant peasants sure do smell when they haven’t bathed” way. She meant it in a “I love to chat with these ignorant peasants no matter what they smell like” way. She’s a people person, guys. Accept it.

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Ferd149 , 10-11-2011 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

When Ferd goes to the amusement park:

Follow me ladies!!

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forgot to bid , 10-11-2011 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by sinca3

Best airline commercial I've seen yet!

Don't know how to embed the video so here's the link:

British Airways - Our advert 2011: To Fly. To Serve. - YouTube

That is a fantastic ad.

Pro pilot too. Like it.

But these two are great ads:

#77886

sinca3 , 10-11-2011 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by N9373M

Forrest Gump, wilst being interviewed by Dick Cavett, with John Lennon on his right.

I gotta get a life, although it was filmed in my home town, Fightertown - Beaufort, SC. (as was The Great Santini, The Big Chill, and some Streisand film - she complained about the "noise")

N9373M, do you still live in Beaufort? I'm down that way 3-4 times a year.
Prince of Tides was the Streisand film...my little sister is an extra on one of the beach scenes, and your Gump film was filmed there also (Actually Hunting and Fripp Islands)

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Denny Crane , 10-11-2011 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy

Denny, I googled "Delta Air Lines Form 5500". Up popped a link to download that off the "Disabled Delta Pilots & Survivor's Association" website. If you reference that, it pretty much validates what slowplay said earlier. As of 6/30/10, the D&S has about $1B in assets, but $1.8B in liabilities, with the majority of those liabilities to pay current survivors and future survivors of current retirees. Considering, its substantially underfunded at present, it seems a bit unfair to drain the fund further to pay me a future survivor benefit, unless, of course, we want to negotiate to greatly increase the funding. But that would be significant cash, and I'd rather have that in my paycheck, rather than the D&S Trust.

Thanks PG. After a look at that website I'm inclined to agree with the above.

Denny

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johnso29 , 10-11-2011 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by gloopy

So do we still get the LGA slots no matter what, or is this some nefarious SWA scheme to make us think we are getting them, ramp up and invest tons of money, only to be told to give up more slot charity to "most favored airline" or the deal's off?

As for any 320 bases in the future, a whopping zero percent of that is net growth unless we order more 320's, which we apparently are no where near doing. So this swap or anything else still looks like a capacity neutral reshuffle with the only potential winners being DCI and probably Alaska somehow. Unless we're getting a lot more 90's (or equivalent) as that fleet growth barely seems to make up for the 9's going away as it is.

Incorrect. You can increase the pilot block hours/utilization of the airplanes and that requires more pilots. You don't necessarily need more airplanes to hire pilots.

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forgot to bid , 10-11-2011 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by johnso29

Incorrect. You can increase the pilot block hours/utilization of the airplanes and that requires more pilots. You don't necessarily need more airplanes to hire pilots.

Maybe we can get rid of those 13 hour duty days that consist of 3 relatively short legs with a 2 hour sit after the first and 3 hour sit after the second followed by one leg to a 10 hour overnight and then a 5 leg day.

Unproduct... oh wait, slot swap went through... greenslips!

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johnso29 , 10-11-2011 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Lifeisgood

I heard as soon as the first sim is unbolted in MSP they are ready to rent A320 sim time in Miami. So the moving itself should not be a issue.

Maybe, but I have a feeling the move/restart will not go as smooth as planned.