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Old 09-08-2010, 08:26 AM
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Actually Nu, you don't get a flying car, or 330s, or 747s or whatever until you start contributing and doing your part.



Where's the promised pictures of your neighbors wives Nu??



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Old 09-08-2010, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Actually Nu, you don't get a flying car, or 330s, or 747s or whatever until you start contributing and doing your part.



Where's the promised pictures of your neighbors wives Nu??



LOL, I never promised anything. If you want to show up, and get beaten up by their muscle, you are free to do so.

Two things I've learned...

1) Don't believe in new airplanes until you are sitting in them.

2) See #1.

Ok, so there are 3 things I've learned:

3) Don't put anything on the swap board unless you really, really mean it. I mean, ***, people do you live with that thing on 24/7? I put a trip up and it was gone 5 minutes later. Good grief...

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Old 09-08-2010, 08:35 AM
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Yes, Nu guys need to pay for the commitments they made per BK and that means that they need to fly their butts off. Also the swap board does not get limited by max pickup.
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Old 09-08-2010, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Yes, Nu guys need to pay for the commitments they made per BK and that means that they need to fly their butts off. Also the swap board does not get limited by max pickup.
Good thing my side gig as a crash test dummy lets me live a life of quiet leisure....

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Old 09-08-2010, 09:06 AM
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3) Don't put anything on the swap board unless you really, really mean it. I mean, ***, people do you live with that thing on 24/7? I put a trip up and it was gone 5 minutes later. Good grief...

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I love those people. When I didn't talk to my wife about my schedule plans in January and bid for a line I ended up nailing every possible worse case scenerio possible. The swap board fixed it all.
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Old 09-08-2010, 09:09 AM
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So who gets to fly the Delta 320 in Europe?

I guess its the basketball games. Its just funny to see pics of Delta 320s next to Air France 320s.

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Old 09-08-2010, 09:21 AM
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I would like to see a 7-9% margin from here on out. That is very possible with jets that can carry the cargo.
For the past few years the executives at AMR have been talking about requiring a 10% operating margin at a minimum to retain and attract new investment capital. This is what I believe the entire industry should be targeting.

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Old 09-08-2010, 09:31 AM
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So who gets to fly the Delta 320 in Europe?

I guess its the basketball games. Its just funny to see pics of Delta 320s next to Air France 320s.

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One of the last trips I know of was flown by the #1 CA & #1 FO in MSP. The trip not including DHs was 3 or 4 legs. I believe it was a 10 day worth 68 hours.
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Old 09-08-2010, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by cslusarc
For the past few years the executives at AMR have been talking about requiring a 10% operating margin at a minimum to retain and attract new investment capital. This is what I believe the entire should be targeting.

10% would be great, but to do that operating costs, (employees) would need to be kept extremely low. If we started seeing these types of margins with labor costs going up, the LLC's would find a way to once again repeat the cycle that made them so successful the last decade.
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Old 09-08-2010, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
10% would be great, but to do that operating costs, (employees) would need to be kept extremely low. If we started seeing these types of margins with labor costs going up, the LLC's would find a way to once again repeat the cycle that made them so successful the last decade.
Hence the need for "merger synergies", right? What was it, $600M just because we merged? Wasn't that what the analyst were looking most forward to with us in that investor call for Q1 or Q2?
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