And EtD was imposed in an attempt at damage control euivalent to bailing out the Titanic with a turkey baster.

Well, the whole thing can be blamed on the mainline pilots. After all, we were the ones who negotiated the contracts that allowed the company to build a regional business model that was doomed to fail. We should probably offer concessions to help them out of this. Maybe everyone could throw in some money and buy the company a......E175?

Already done.

How old are you? You do understand people have family members that might be special needs or mentally "retarded". These things impact peoples lives in a major way. "Retard" seems to be your word of the week.......grow up

Boeing undercut Airbus by a good margin with the 737-900 pricing (thus our subsequent order).

How do you explain that?

It's what the bus says to you on landing you can lighten up a bit. I am one of those people that has a special needs family member and guess what, this doesn't bother me.

We are playing hard to get with Seattle, making the town want us more by going with a competitor.

I could see a few MH B777's being sold for cheep as they prob go out of business..

3 days ago, air India put 3 of its 777-200LRs up for sale. $350m was the asking price. Again, used 777s aren't part of the RFP. By my count, there are 6 flying 777-300s available on the open market right now for sale, many others available for lease plus the 3 flying LRs. 777s are immediately available.

The "retard" thingy is a reference to an aural warning used by Airbus on all of it's aircraft. It's not a referring to a person. Rather, it's a verb requesting an action. In the context of the sentence, T is asking
to silence the horn. Lighten up, Francis.