Re: Southwest Airlines flight attendant loses two teeth after passenger assault

MDC862 wrote:

What is it that the airline employees say, that this all started ramping up with the "stimi-money people?"

Re: Why Has Boeing Been So Reluctant To Build A New Narrowbody?

Did Boeing ever consider an overhaul of the 757-200? Was it possible to lighten it, add newer avionics, newer engines, more fuel efficient, etc. while keeping its performance measures?

Re: Should UA Bring 752s Out of Desert

Quick random question....but how many 75's did pre-merger UA have back in its day? Thanks!

RE: Decline Of Airline Travel In The US (NYT Article)

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/777fan" class="quote" target="_blank">777fan</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> You so perfectly hi...

RE: Woman Forcibly Removed From FLL-CLT Flt On US

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/usflyguy" class="quote" target="_blank">usflyguy</a> (<a href="#58" class="quote">Reply 58</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I am being ve...

RE: Woman Forcibly Removed From FLL-CLT Flt On US

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/sankaps" class="quote" target="_blank">sankaps</a> (<a href="#54" class="quote">Reply 54</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> A decade ago an...

RE: Woman Forcibly Removed From FLL-CLT Flt On US

I'm going to put this as simply as I can: 1) As time goes by, the traveling public is becoming more rude, obnoxious, and more entitled........this is due to a FALSE SENSE <acronym title="Transports et Travaux Aériens de Madagascar">OF</acronym> SELF IMPORTANCE resulting from smartphones, cell phones...

Where Did UA's Domestic Widebody Flying Go?

Before the merger with <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym>, <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> used to fly quite a few domestic hub to hub, and hub to large city flights with a mix of domestic 767s, international 767s, domestic 777s, and international 777s. i.e ...

RE: OFFICIAL: New AA Livery Today! Part 2

I'm sorry, but at first glance of the new logo: <center><table align="center" border="0" width="641" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><a href="/uf/view.file?id=5075&filename=php7Ocns2.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/uf/5075/php7Ocns2.png" width="639" height="96...

RE: AA Issues Layoff Notices To 11,000 Employees

Does anyone know if the TWA flight attendants that were recently called back to work will now be affected by this recent cut? Thanks....

RE: Milk Run Nostalgia

Going back to the person's post about Piedmont....they did indeed have some great milk runs!!! They called the fares "hop scotch fares" LOL One of the flights on Piedmont that I used to take all the time was <acronym title="Greensboro - Piedmont Triad International (GSO / KGSO), USA - North Carolina...

RE: New Delta Mainline Cities

Looks like <acronym title="Wilmington - New Hanover International (County) (ILM / KILM), USA - North Carolina">ILM</acronym> will be getting mainline service from <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> sometime...

DL's Long Term 757 Replacement Plan?

Delta has around 155 B757-200s in its current fleet. What do you think the long term replacement plan is for the entire fleet of 155? Given the 100 B739s <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> has on order, do you think it will be more B739s? Or possibly a large order of A321NEOs? I per...

RE: United 727 Last Years Of Service?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/WNCrew" class="quote" target="_blank">WNCrew</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> You are so right ab...

RE: United Domestic First Class "Snack"?

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Airline Paint Schemes?

What happened to airline paint schemes? They used to be so bold and classy.....now they are just boring, generic, and cheap looking........why did the airlines let their identity go by the wayside? Any thoughts? <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/ope...

RE: Funny UM Stories

Well I always loved commercial aviation ever since I can remember......and I LOVED flying on planes.....even as a U.M One time I was flying back home on a Piedmont 737-200 (Wilmington to Greensboro) and so when they pre-boarded me up the stairs........me being the nosey snoop and my curiosity taking...

RE: UA Exec-Oil Price Rise Could Cause Grounded Planes

We (the employees) received this email from Mr. Jack Brace clarifying today's media reports. Quoting Mr. Brace: "Good evening. By now, many of you have read or heard reports that United is planning to ground 100 aircraft. The reports are based on comments I made at a Goldman Sachs conference yesterd...

RE: What Was Your 1st And Last L1011 Flight?

1985 <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="West Palm Beach - Palm Beach International (PBI / KPBI), USA - Florida">PBI</acronym> Delta 1999 <acronym title="West Palm Beach - Palm Beach Internat...

RE: Delta To Malaga In 2008!

Quoting Skibum9

"For the 1000 time on a.net, there is no such thing as a 757-200ER, it is a 757-200 ETOPS."


For the sake of this topic........Who the f**k cares?

RE: GSO Pitch For Focus City For SkyBus

One thought...........Eastwind Airlines.

RE: What Will UA Need To Replace First?

Our recent company news brief called "Eye on <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym>" addressed the fleet replacement issue. It sounds like there will not be a new order any time soon. Here is the news brief from Tilton and some of our other execs. Quoted from our news letter: <i>EYE-ON-...

RE: United Struggles To Navigate New Course

I blame UAL's Board of Directors for not getting rid of that despicable S.O.B Glenn Tilton a LONG time ago.

RE: More Bad News For UA

Everyone keeps talking about United's Service and this and that.....but I don't get it. Ok....sure the employees attitude's aren't the greatest and they have some MAJOR work cut out for them, BUT United's domestic product is still WAY better than most airline's out there. On all domestic flights ove...

RE: USA Today: UA Customer Service Worst

Quoting FLYGUY767-

"Things will continue to erode until sensible and dedicated management takes over. Until then prepare for the daily, weekly, and monthly complaint threads about United Airlines decline in service."

Smartest statement that has been said on this entire topic!

"United 93" & The Oscars

Just finished watching the 2007 Oscars and wanted to honor the passengers and flight crew of United flight 93. I didn't know this, but the big screen film "United 93" was nominated for best film editing and for best director. (Paul Greengrass) "United 93" did not win in either category but I was imp...

RE: MySpace Profiles And Airline Employers

AirTran was also another airline that fired some <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym>'s for having stuff on myspace. But some of the people that <acronym title="Gothenburg - Landvetter (GOT / ESGG), Sweden">GOT</acronym> fired had STUPID stuff on their website alongside AirTran pics. ...

RE: No Merger For Continental

It never ceases to amaze me all of the people that will turn any thread into something against United Airlines like........ EssentialPowr And I guarentee you that all of the people that bash United on these forums would be the first to say things if United ever went under like: "There's the end of a...

A Personal Note To All DL Pilots

After reading this, I had to borrow a friend's account to make a post: Just a personal note about Karma: 10 years ago Delta, and DALPA did everything in their power to shutdown a then small airline called ValuJet. Yet in 2000, the pilots of AirTran watched in silent support as you paraded around the...

RE: DL's New Interiors

Definately an improvement from the MD80s that used to have three colors of seats going on!  

RE: Dumb Moves By Airlines

Independence Air. !


Delta and 3 paint schemes at one time!

RE: Who Gets What From NW If......

I could definitely see AirTran sub-leasing as many a/c from Ryan International and Miami Air as the unions allow, and expand into <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> and <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wa...

RE: UAL And TED Question

Does anyone think that United will follow Delta's footsteps with Song and merge Ted back into mainline United? Or is Ted performing ok for United?

RE: Song Officially Cutting Flights

Do you think United will follow in Delta's footsteps and merge Ted back into mainline? Or is Ted performing really well for United?

RE: Gay Pilots

First of all, Happy New Year.. This post caused me to borrow a friends account and make a post.. I know much has been written here, but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents.. I am a gay airline pilot, and have had nothing but good experiences. It has never affected promotion to Captain, involvement in un...

RE: Help With Old US Airways Theme Music

HPA320- I think you will like this website!!! <a href="http://www.idhal.com/cockroach/cockroach.htm" target=_blank>http://www.idhal.com/cockroach/cockroach.htm</a> It has their mid 90's theme song and the transformation theme song! Enjoy!!  <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt...

RE: "Jarhead" The Movie

This is Victorville California.. It is a storage and scrap area, (bone-yard).. Many of those planes have not flown in years, and will not fly again!

RE: SNL Jetblue Spoof

I thought it was pretty good too! Especially when Amy Poehler starts inhaling the jetBlue Terra Chips while watching her "doomed" plane on CNN!!!  

RE: AirTran Airways Is Here To Stay?

Aa757first.... You are wrong about our current flight attendant pay scale....we do not top out at $26 an hour. Here is a copy of our current pay scale with the new June 2005 contract, which actually is ABOVE industry average. The "years" mean years of service with the company. START $18.56/hr 6 MOS ...

Would it be more beneficial if Northwest filed?

With the labor situation getting out of control, fuel costs sky rocketing, and over capacity in the US airline industry, does anyone think it might be a GOOD thing if NWA did not make it out of this? And I do not wish ANY NWA employee out of a job at all! I appaud you all for putting up with your NA...

RE: Info On Continental's GSO Hub.

Ahhh this is my specialty! As a Greensboro native, we flew Continental Lite quite a few times but I have to say that the experience was not that great compared to what Continental is today. Continental Lite operated out of about 5 gates in <acronym title="Greensboro - Piedmont Triad International (G...

RE: NW Mechanics Intentionally Grounding Planes?

Today I started out in <acronym title="Rochester - Greater Rochester International (Monroe County) (ROC / KROC), USA - New York">ROC</acronym> for just two legs <acronym title="Rochester - Greater Rochester International (Monroe County) (ROC / KROC), USA - New York">ROC</acronym>-<acronym title="Bal...

RE: Give Em Hell Northwest Flint-RSW

Isitsafenow- Just some heads up..... The two free drink in business class policy went out the door about two years ago. Our business class customers receive complimentary beverages, beer, wine, and cocktails whenever they wish. Cheers! I am glad that you enjoy that deli sandwich that NWA serves. I s...

RE: Mechanics Union: Talks With NWA Are Off

Gipper913- Sorry my bad..... Northwest's President and CEO is about the most ugly and nasty person I have ever seen. I am sure he is the same way on the inside too. Is that better grammar for you?  <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile"> Name ONE thing he has done GOOD f...

RE: Give Em Hell Northwest Flint-RSW

Let see here.......hmmmmm.... AirTran's FNT- Florida Service -New state of the art modern planes -Free <acronym title="Alitalia Express (Italy)">XM</acronym> satellite Radio -Cookies or pretzels in main cabin.... (all you could possible want) -An award winning magazine -Affordable Business Class -Fr...

RE: Mechanics Union: Talks With NWA Are Off

To everyone who thinks that AMFA and the NWA mechanics are foolish for what they are doing, how would you feel if you were in the bottom HLAF of the mechanic seniority list and KNEW that you would be furloughed immediately? AMFA has an obligation and a job to protect its members, and if they were to...

RE: AirTran Announces DTW!

Maybe NWA will put their scab flight attendants on a scab maintenance plane on the new FNT-<acronym title="Fort Myers - Southwest Florida International (Regional) (RSW / KRSW), USA - Florida">RSW</acronym> route!  <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile">  <img src="/...

RE: AirTran Announces DTW!

Hey AirTran737, Travatl, Midway2AirTran and my other fellow AirTran crew members, Maybe you can help me out with this one. Of course I am excited about adding new cities like Detroit to our route map. But where on earth are we going to fit all of these new frequencies in Atlanta. Atlanta seems SOO t...

RE: Airtran's $11 Million Profit

Danny,

You are negative. I feel sorry for you.

Cheers!  

AirTran & Midwest..

A couple of recent rumors that somebody on here may know something about: Rumor: AirTran made a (low-ball) cash offer to buy Midwest last fall, and Midwest Mgt. has chosen not to look at it, until now.. Rumor / Fact: Last week, an AirTran jet COMATed 29 reservation and gate terminal computers to <ac...