Dirtdiver

[QUOTE=80ktsClamp;1159305]In the free text, I made sure to remind them that to make Delta great, if it says Delta on the side of the airplane that it should be flown by Delta mainline employees.


Ditto here!

Told 'em to stop outsourcing my job

Jughead

The 880, DC-6/7, L-100, 727, DC-8, and 1011 seemed to do fine for us -

firstmob

Fuel was a whole lot cheaper when those frames were flying.

Jughead

Yep - agree - name me something that wasn't cheaper (other than ticket prices). Just making the point that 3+ engine airplanes have a good history here.

Timbo

So...where are they today?

80ktsClamp

Well, at least I won't be the only one getting fired for what I put on the survey. They asked!

Jughead

Where? Where all good, reliable airplanes go after 30 years of dedicated, safe service - in my recycle bin in the form of a Miller Lite can. I don't know - I assume they did what they were designed to do...

Plenty of 1 and 2 engine airplanes eventually meet their demise as well. My point was, and I guess it wasn't made clear, that 3 & 4 engine planes have dutifully served well here at Delta.

Again, everything was cheaper back in the day. I should've been born in about 1940. Life was good.

More Bacon

The "Bags Fly Free" motto at Southwest Airlines Co. applies to all its customers, except those who fly on Southwest’s wholly owned subsidiary AirTran Airways, which charges $20 to check one bag, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) closed its AirTran Holdings purchase on May 2, 2011, and received its single operating certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration on March 1, 2012.

As Southwest begins to integrate operations like combining airport check-in areas, AirTran’s bag fees will outlast those milestones, but when the fees will end is still undetermined.

“It’s definitely something that’s up toward the top of the list,” Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger said Tuesday about aligning the brands’ fees. “You can’t say it’s something that in the next year will be completed, but it’s something we want to do.”

AirTran announced in February that it would begin offering flights from Austin to Cancun in May.

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Launchpad475

Pretty sure that's the first DONK posted on this thread, nice find! With lambo doors no less.

scambo1

No, that's a 777-200LR. Don't you have your aircraft recognition handbook. Sheesh!

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