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    • ON: Mon Jun 2nd 19:31 PM
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      Silverjet, RIP
      RE "not Bob Crandall" comment-- you need to grow up & get a life... and a brain. Wishing all those airlines would go under is pure stupidity. Do you have any regard for all the people whose lives would be torn apart by the loss of those jobs? Just ask all the Aloha Airlines employees how much fun it is dealing with no job, no insurance, no retirement.
      Here's my "wish" for you-- that tomorrow you get YOUR pink slip, babe.
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    • ON: Tue May 27th 03:48 AM
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      Are Legacy Costs Really American Airlines' Biggest Problem?
      Re BioInvestor comment about the bonuses-- I agree, the salaries & bonuses wouldn't cover the losses American has had this year. But under the circumstances, wouldn't it have looked a lot better to the public and the employees if the AA management had either foregone bonuses for at least seriously reduced them since they were announcing big losses? It's kind of stupid to say "we're losing this much money" and then turn around and write a bonus check. Makes a lot of people wonder "well, where's the bonus money coming from then if you're already operating at a loss". I know a LOT of big companies in DFW that cut bonuses entirely during lean years. We might not have liked the situation, but it was understandable. And the bottom line is, people really need to learn to live on their SALARY and to look at a bonus as just that, a bonus.
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    • ON: Tue May 27th 03:42 AM
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      Are Legacy Costs Really American Airlines' Biggest Problem?
      Re Bus Driver comment-- you CAN get a FF ticket to Hawai'i if you plan ahead. We just flew our daughter over to Hawai'i with no problem.... BUT we booked the ticket 4 months in advance. You can't wait until the last month and then hope to get a low miles ticket.

      I fly to Hawai'i from DFW about 4 times a year. This may well drop to 3 times per year here very soon because of the fares. I'm one of the ones saying "stop nickle & diming us to death and just raise the fare to cover the dang fuel increases". But by the same token, I do tend to gag when I look at the fares (now) and realize that I'll pay about $400 more for a ticket for Sept. than I paid for the same ticket the same time last year. That's about a 33% increase.

      The thing that galls the sox off me right now is that stupid $15 charge to check the FIRST bag. What a public relations screw-up that little move has been. Why didn't they just call it a fuel cost increase and be done with it?
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    • ON: Mon May 5th 07:24 AM
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      Home Depot Slows Down Expansion; Still Losing Customers to Lowes
      The stock holders should demand some changes at the HQ level of HD. When you have 2 companies with basically the exact same product lines and target market (and stores usually within a block or two of each other) and one company is doing substantially better than the other, then you've got to question the oveall management starting at the top.
      I prefer to shop Lowes because of the same reasons already stated... cleaner more eye-appealing store, employees who actually help you, and products actually in-stock rather than having to be ordered. HD was the first to come into our town & we were glad to have it. When Lowes came into town about a year later we had been conditioned to believe Lowes was going to be higher priced so we intially avoided it, but it only took a few trips there for things we couldn't find at HD to eventually discover it was a nicer more organized store with much better service.
      Does HD want to cater to mainly just the contracting sect, or do they also want the business of the average consumer??
      A note to HD: I've now bought 2 refrigerators, a washer/drier, multiple custom window blinds/coverings orders, multiple ceiling fans & light fixtures, etc etc at Lowes. I may not be a BIG customer, but multiply me by thousands. That's a lot of business to let go to the competition just because you have this "warehouse" mentality at HD. Think about it.
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