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Old 02-20-2015 | 07:45 AM
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Report Says Gulf Airlines Got $39B (With More to Come) in Illegal Subsidies - Pg.2 - TheStreet


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Old 02-20-2015 | 09:32 PM
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Oh, I remember the ATSB loans and aid. United, one of the airlines directly affected by 9/11 didn't get aid or loans. I don't think American even applied.
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Old 02-20-2015 | 09:57 PM
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Oh, I remember the ATSB loans and aid. United, one of the airlines directly affected by 9/11 didn't get aid or loans. I don't think American even applied.
Neither did NWA or DAL.
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Old 02-20-2015 | 11:32 PM
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Those of us at UAL certainly do appreciate the pilots who wrote letters against our ATSB loan guarantee application. Another in a long list of distasteful acts.
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Old 02-21-2015 | 05:33 AM
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Those of us at UAL certainly do appreciate the pilots who wrote letters against our ATSB loan guarantee application. Another in a long list of distasteful acts.

.......yup!
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Old 02-21-2015 | 08:40 AM
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And even though Congress allocated up to $5B in "loan guarantees" very little was ever taken, and it was all paid back with interest by the airlines that borrowed it.

Of course the press for YEARS talked about the $5B handout to the airlines.
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Those of us at UAL certainly do appreciate the pilots who wrote letters against our ATSB loan guarantee application. Another in a long list of distasteful acts.
Yep just as disgusting as the TORQUE campaign.
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Old 02-21-2015 | 10:19 AM
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If UA/DAL/AA really want to stab these airlines in the heart... hire every expat pilot at those airline that want to come home. There are quite a few.
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Originally Posted by intrepidcv11
Yep just as disgusting as the TORQUE campaign.
Right. One was a overt, hyper competitive, and at times vicious campaign to extract customers from an airline at Denver Stapleton. The other, a campaign with the underlying intentions of forcing a company out of business, sending 100,000 workers to the street while Pavlov's dogs were salivating at the thought of carving up one of the best route structures in the world.

It's akin to comparing an international guppy to an international whale.
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