FlyingViking

Elaborate please.......

acl65pilot

I am sure you are already aware of what their best guess is.

FlyingViking

Seem to be changing daily though...

BlueMoon

He is probably getting a Diet Coke to. I'll have the triple cheeseburger, biggie Fries, a large frosty, oh and a DIET Coke

satchip

Now you've gone and done it. In the spirit of comity, I refrained from stating the obvious. That is most certainly down on the plains. After all Auburn has a School of Agriculture and animal husbandry (which means something totally different down there than it does to the rest of the world) while Alabama has schools of Business and Medicine.

Obviously this is one of War Chicken's offensive linemen fufiling his academic requirements. After a hard day of shoveling cow poop and cavorting with sheep, he says to himself, "I sure could use a coke, but d'em Walmart ones are only $.25!"

forgot to bid

Uh no. Thats an Alabama fan, here is why:



Backhanded compliment time: the honest truth Satch, in my time and experience with Alabama students and alumni I've always gotten a bit of a Ole Miss style vibe. Auburn's students and alumni got more of a big city suburbs vibe. Neither would look like that.

But when it comes to fans Alabama has a lot more fans that have never touched the campus outside of a football saturday than Auburn does and a good number of them fit that mold. I've been to Alabama games, I've seen it.

But I think that has a lot to do with being "the" school in the state as when I lived in TN I saw a lot of Vols fans that fit that picture and UGA fans can be like that too. The actual students and alumnus, not so much. The Auburns, Vanderbilts and GaTech fans usually either went to the school, know someone who does or who are cheering against someone they don't like.

KC10 FATboy

I'm not going to argue with you. Do a simple Google search on AT&T and Bandwidth and you'll see the mountain of articles about AT&T's bandwidth problem due to the iPhone and more importantl how they are addressing it in the future (proposed usage data plans). Don't hate the messenger.

AT&T considers incentives to curb heavy data usage | Signal Strength - CNET News

I know you guys love your iPhones, it's a great product. But make no mistake, AT&T had no idea how successful it would become, more importantly, how much bandwidth they'd use. Because of that, their signal, call, and bandwidth reliability is suffering signifcantly. Their 3G network is woefully lacking coverage. As they struggle to implement more 3G coverage, other carriers have developed and are in the process of building newer, faster, and more capable 4G networks. My stupid Razor phone 4 years ago could send video and pictures in MMS without going to external sites to download. The iPhone / AT&T recently just got that with the latest version of the iPhone. They are behind on their network and everybody knows it.

But I know, Apple is God and everything they do is golden. Remember when Microsoft helped bail them out and extended a financial lifeline? How ironic. They love this closed source crap for their products. Just imagine how many iPhone users there would be if you could buy legally and use on other networks?

Online NewsHour: Microsoft sinks $150 million into Apple -- August 6, 1997

forgot to bid

So with RAH purchasing 80 C-Series, isn't it about @#%)(@#*$ time Delta parks outsourced carriers so as to stop funding the creation of a major competitor?

Just saying. It's getting pretty old with RAH.

Superpilot92

Agree 100% and our Union needs to see what Bombardier is selling and this should **** everyone off. Its time to put a permanent cap on SCOPE!!!!

FROM BOMBARDIER in regards to OUR SCOPE and JOB PROTECTIONS

<b>http://www.bombardier.com/files/en/supporting_docs/BCA_2009_Market_Forecast.pdf</b>

While the rate of
capacity reductions is expected
to slow, US mainline carriers will
continue to remove older aircraft
from their fleets. Scope clauses
will be challenged as mainline
carriers continue to look for more
optimization opportunities through
regional carrier outsourcing.


An important component of
mainline carrier crew labour
agreements are scope clauses.
These negotiated clauses define
restrictions on the type, number
and size of aircraft that may be
flown by regional airline partners.
Scope clauses are found in both
the US and Europe, but are most
restrictive in the US. Historically,
scope clauses have been a
barrier to outsourcing. However,
scope clauses are considerably
less restrictive than they were
historically, and are permitting
regional carriers to fly more
and larger regional aircraft.
It is
predicted that over the next 20
years, scopes clauses will evolve,
permitting 100-seat aircraft to be
flown by regional carriers, and
play a central role in reshaping the
makeup of the industry.

The mix of the deliveries, 5,800
turboprops and jets in total, will
be strongly influenced by mainline
carrier scope clauses as they
evolve to permit improved network
capacity optimization. On a cost
basis, regional airlines operating
large regional aircraft have proven
to be very competitive even
compared to LFCs flying larger
narrow body aircraft.

(LFC = Low Fare Carrier = Southwest)

forgot to bid

fwiw, now that Bombardier has gotten the big order it was really wanting and needing then I have been reading you can expect to see what Airbus and Embraer do in response, A320 upgrade and E195X, and Boeing 737... bigger nose strut for more round engines.