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RE: Dallas Chamber "Repeal Wright Amendment"

I think the chamber has it right, Allow a phase in over 2 to 5 years. Maybe allow 1 more state a month to connect through <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> for awhile. The state would be set up by the airport commission. Maybe after 2 months they couls have...

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RE: AA Mainline Back To GSO; RDU-PNS Gone

Makes sense that <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> wouldn't drop St Louis, unless the O&D is really bad. Right now, <acronym title="Raleigh / Durham - International (RDU / KRDU), USA - North Carolina">RDU</acronym>'s traffic numbers indicate that anyone dropping service is nuts. ...

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RE: HP/US Route Addition/cuts

Those MSA's still piss me off. How the .... did those guys come up with the Raleigh Durham MSA split? And still keep DFW intact?

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RE: HP/US Merger And Southwest

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RE: It's Official - US Airways / America West To Merge

(early disclosure---haven't read above posts, going for my first take on this) 1. two companies have just merged. 2. Both are losing money. 3. Combined they have higher costs than Southwest(as stated in one article I read) 4. Have more diversity/costs in thier fleet. 5. Have 4 hubs(not gonna count f...

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RE: Just For Fun: Rename US/HP

How about "Spruce Goose"

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RE: Grammar / Spelling Peeves

n e 1 wurreed aboot spelling n grammer is jus wastin Oxygen

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RE: No More Fuel, What Would Happen To The World?

Well I remember the pedal plane <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> Serioulsly, When you think about it, other than Nuclear/Earth Gravitational, all of our power comes directly or indirectly from the sun. All of the oil and fuel was produced over millions/billions of ...

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RE: USA To Step In And Help Uzbekistan?

Nighthawk,
You are telling me that you aren't deeply disturbed that a government would kill HUNDREDS of it's own UNARMED citizen's?

//I think you are making one hell of a giant leap between concern and invasion.

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RE: Uh Oh, The Koran Is Burned...

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RE: AA Mainline Back To GSO; RDU-PNS Gone

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RE: AA Mainline Back To GSO; RDU-PNS Gone

RDU -<acronym title="Pensacola - Regional (PNS / KPNS), USA - Florida">PNS</acronym> was interesting, but if <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> ever wants to try to compete with Delta/Airtran in that market, flying through <acronym title="Raleigh / Durham - International (RDU / KR...

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RE: RDU Seeking West Coast, European Flights

Indy The "Newer Terminal" and Newer/Longer Runway is the terminal C side on the Northwest. This was <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>'s hub building built in the mid 80's. Unfortunately it lacks the facilities to handle multiple airlines' O&D traffic. The North end of it is gone ...

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RE: HP/US Update

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RE: HP/US Update

If this goes through I will have to label the <acronym title="America West Airlines (USA)">HP</acronym> crew as the dumbest MFrs in the world. They would be better off Buying Independence and it's current routes on the east,, than buying the hulk of steaming meadow muffins that is US Airways. There ...

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RE: RDU Seeking West Coast, European Flights

To hit on a few points from above, <acronym title="Raleigh / Durham - International (RDU / KRDU), USA - North Carolina">RDU</acronym> is probably not well known outside of the United states, but, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Duke University probably are. Red Hat, IBM, Nortel, Ci...

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RE: RDU Seeking West Coast, European Flights

I would think frontier or United would go back after the <acronym title="Raleigh / Durham - International (RDU / KRDU), USA - North Carolina">RDU</acronym> market. For Frontier it would be about having enough planes for the market. A major plus for the Denver routing, is that they can offer a pretty...

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RE: Hypocrisy Of Aviation Enthusiasts.

I don't think it is a hypocricy. I think what you will find throughout the board, are people who cheer for the new/underdog vs the old dog. It's like baseball. THe yankees are good, they have great support and fans. However a lot of people love to hate them. Of course if they were ever to dissapear,...

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RE: FLYi Post Q1 Numbers

Does anyone know how much of an effect the retirement off all the spare craft in Jan had on the results. It would seem to me that they are in better shape than the cash burn reflects. I know they are still loosing money, but most of them money they lost must have occurred in Jan before they retired ...

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RE: AA's Arpey "consider Closing Love Field"

Closing love field is a Dallas Fort Worth issue. Wright is Federal, and it hinders interstate commerce. end of discussion. As far as wright goes, it needs to go. As to the other mitigating factors such as landing fees,empty gates, bonds and <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>'s mon...

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RE: USAir To Fly PHL To FAY/ILM/OAJ/EWN

ERJ, I am sure you just made an innocent mistake in typing, but the north part of C is already gone.

Either way, ever since they abandoned the plan with doing A first, I was pretty sure they were going for the complete rebuild of C

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RE: USAir To Fly PHL To FAY/ILM/OAJ/EWN

ERJ,
I thought that was always the plan, they are only doing one half at a time due to the needed gate requirements.

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RE: Will UA FA's Strike On May 10th?

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RE: Will UA FA's Strike On May 10th?

lax ... "Several unions have been working under 90-day agreements while negotiating over concessions and pensions. They expire next Tuesday." That would be May 10th. United has not seriously addressed the concerns of their employee base, and have not made a meaningful and sincere attempt to address ...

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RE: Ding! You Are Now Free To Fly To Dallas!"

It is pretty simple issues. <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>'s Stance: 1. Built big airport 2. Just added costly addition 3. Have monopoly on connecting flights through Dallas 4. Need fees for #2 5. Just lost 25% of the capacity when Delta ...

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RE: Will UA FA's Strike On May 10th?

I have seen it from another industry in the past 5 years, all this cutting, and the lack of doing the right thing from the onset of bankruptcy leads me to believe that United's management is not up to the task. Hard feelings cause a lot of pain, no matter how hard United's management is running to s...

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RE: Will UA FA's Strike On May 10th?

For some people this is a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. All the employees of <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> are reeling from some big choices made by management in regards to the future of the company. However management does not seem to be reciprocating among...

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RE: SWA Traffic Takes A Nosedive

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RE: SWA Traffic Takes A Nosedive

SWA traffic was down for other reasons in April. Mainly the fact that easter vacations and Spring break were all in March

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RE: Per JP Morgan, FlyI May Not Make It

Geez,
End of year actually sounds very good.
Amazingly if they can last 2-3 months more they may be in great shape, especially if the United workers strike. A strike at United would guarantee their survival.

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RE: Strike Vote At United Airlines

LOOKS like AMFA and the flight attendants are in on the strike vote. <a href ="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050502/25739.html?.v=1">AMFA voting for strike</a> Does anyone know how likely it will be for the strike to occur, THe current agreement, imposed by the bankruptcy judge expires May 31. Can United ...

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RE: FL To Add More PHL Service

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RE: The A380 First Flight Thread Part Deux

Nice to see it happen. Knew it would fly, but I bet all the designers are feeling relieved. Knowing it should fly and seeing it fly are two different things. Congrats to all on the Airbus team and supporters that made it happen.

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RE: A380 : Take Off Confirmed Wednesday At 10:30AM LT

Ok, I won't be awake for it, but I expect plenty of pics and video on A.net for when I wake up. Please

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RE: Rising Fuel Costs And The $100,000 Flight

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RE: The Southwest Effect On May 4 - $64 PIT-PHL

The reason the southwest fare of 402 is there, is probably because they sold out all the lower cost baskets, in one of the directions.

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RE: Air France Starts Third Daily Flight To Washington

Well, this could be the beginning of the summer tourism traffic, and i expect with all the poeple in Europe taking advantage of the Euro to go to the US, there will be a lot of international vactioners on this flight.

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RE: Small Airport W/ 777 Service

Doubt <acronym title="Raleigh / Durham - International (RDU / KRDU), USA - North Carolina">RDU</acronym> is small in terms of size. On a plus note, I watched the 777 roll out today to <acronym title="London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), United Kingdom">LGW</acronym>. Hell of a sound as it thundered down t...

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RE: US Airways Briefly Undermines Efforts To Escape Bk

Sorry just saw other thread, this can be deleted.

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US Airways Briefly Undermines Efforts To Escape Bk

<a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/11425090.htm">US Airways sells tickets for less than $2 over the weekend</a>. 1. Obviously a computer screwup. 2. They will honor the tickets. How many of these were sold I wonder? //sorry for the subsription site, but the 2 points make...

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RE: First A380 Rotation Pic

I am going to have to side with the itsa fake club.
There is no evidence in that picture of the Jet Wash that should be pouring out of those engines and causing heat waves in the picture. Also the more I look at the pic of the plane vs the surroundings, the faker it looks.

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RE: First A380 Rotation Pic

Wow , is it me? The Camera Angle? The scope of size?
But wow, doesn't it look like the tail has very little margin of error?

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RE: AA Starting STL-VPS

NYCFLYER, You call it the redneck riveira, but you have no clue what is there. The beaches of Okaloosa County have a lot of condos, homes and golf courses. Not only is it the home of a military base, but many people have retired to this area. It is an area that can generate a lot of traffic. Guess w...

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RE: AA Starting STL-VPS

American probably got a hefty contract from the military, but if so, I wonder why <acronym title="Raleigh / Durham - International (RDU / KRDU), USA - North Carolina">RDU</acronym> wasn't on the list due to it's proximity to Fort Bragg, Cherry point, and seymore . I guess <acronym title="American Ai...

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RE: Independence Axes Norfolk

ShupPirate,
I was saying they should start philly, read my post again slowly and without a hot head.

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RE: Independence Axes Norfolk

I think Indy should move those flights and station to Philadelphia if they aren't loosing the aircraft. Philly could support the O&D through the system, and provide another valuable destination for indy. Especially since indy has flights to Charlotte and San Francisco as of June 1.

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RE: Satallite Map Of Airports

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RE: Satallite Map Of Airports

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RE: Random Number Generator

One of the best sources for a random number generator is the system clock. It is psuedorandom, The best thing about it, is that it is based on when you run the program. And it is extremely difficult to predict the seed, especially when the system clock is running in the microsecond-nanosecond range.

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RE: Independence Air Planning Major Expansion In CLT

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