MEC Chairman's Message - Early Section 6
11-03-2017, 10:35 AM
#251
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Originally Posted by Chuck D
HOLY HE!! can we move past the merger garbage?
Everybody got screwed. Everybody's airline was the superior one pre-merger. Everyone should have retired in the double digits were it not for the cursed merger. Everyone else was measuring their fleet size and so-called greatness with a questionable and definitely uncalibrated ruler.
The only thing dumber than this is the USAPA/AmWest/TWA/AA ridiculousness... which I have to admit does actually take the cake for dumbness. So lets make fun of them,
...but just move on from the merger for god's sake!
Everybody got screwed. Everybody's airline was the superior one pre-merger. Everyone should have retired in the double digits were it not for the cursed merger. Everyone else was measuring their fleet size and so-called greatness with a questionable and definitely uncalibrated ruler.
The only thing dumber than this is the USAPA/AmWest/TWA/AA ridiculousness... which I have to admit does actually take the cake for dumbness. So lets make fun of them,
...but just move on from the merger for god's sake!
Excuse the thread drift. Does anyone have the big picture as to how the AA - USAirways SLI went down? You don't hear much about it, and frankly given the history at USAirways - AWA you'd think this SLI would be version 2 of the previous SLI madness, but it seems very quiet post SLI over there.
11-03-2017, 10:56 AM
#252
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Originally Posted by Chuck D
HOLY HE!! can we move past the merger garbage?
Everybody got screwed. Everybody's airline was the superior one pre-merger. Everyone should have retired in the double digits were it not for the cursed merger. Everyone else was measuring their fleet size and so-called greatness with a questionable and definitely uncalibrated ruler......
...but just move on from the merger for god's sake!
Everybody got screwed. Everybody's airline was the superior one pre-merger. Everyone should have retired in the double digits were it not for the cursed merger. Everyone else was measuring their fleet size and so-called greatness with a questionable and definitely uncalibrated ruler......
...but just move on from the merger for god's sake!
As to AA:
Not sure about the big picture, but I heard the L-AA guys were referring to themselves as "Native Americans," which---SLI Arguments aside----is pretty damn funny!
11-03-2017, 11:16 AM
#253
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Originally Posted by JoePatroni
Financing is almost ALWAYS available, the cost of money is dependent on how badly it is needed- in 2008 the cost of money went up. Neither company was going to be allowed to go out of business because the big banks had way too much money invested in the day to day cash flow and Boeing wasn't going to screw a long time customer who was going to be buying a lot more airplanes down the road. That is standard disclosure language when a financial obligation is on the books that has yet to be addressed with financing.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
11-03-2017, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by CousinEddie
Also standard disclosure so the banks get the risk and business conditions to a level that they find acceptable when it is time to sign on the dotted line. Thus the merger.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
11-03-2017, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by CousinEddie
Also standard disclosure so the banks get the risk and business conditions to a level that they find acceptable when it is time to sign on the dotted line. Thus the merger.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
11-03-2017, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Knotcher
There are LCAL guys with similar experiences with disgruntled LUAL, but chose not to post them here just to make the other side look bad. Next time you run into a 5 percenter, don't bother posting it here as it does nothing but rattle the bee hive...we are trying to move on.
11-03-2017, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by CousinEddie
Right. I'll just talk about honeymoons, roses and lollipops next time.
11-05-2017, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by CousinEddie
Also standard disclosure so the banks get the risk and business conditions to a level that they find acceptable when it is time to sign on the dotted line. Thus the merger.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
I said nothing when this guy showed up with his ex-con bag tag. I ignored it. He launched into the SLI, unsolicited. "I got totally screwed, and UAL was going CH11" is what he spewed. He will never see it any other way. Fine. Keep it out of the cockpit then.
11-05-2017, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Scrappy
Or the guys running around with their orange tulip bag tags. And yet I don’t say a word...actually could not care less. It cuts both ways. Everyone needs to let go and move on with their life.
11-05-2017, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Scrappy
Or the guys running around with their orange tulip bag tags. And yet I don’t say a word...actually could not care less. It cuts both ways. Everyone needs to let go and move on with their life.
And....now the real excuse, because I'm too lazy to do anything about it. Don't read too much into it, I'm just lazy....
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