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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 11:16 am
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Originally Posted by Gargoyle
And, surprisingly, it looks like I got away with that post without getting flamed for my grammar. I believe I should have said "with which the LCC's can't compete."

(it's just that it's hard to make any statement in a subject as heated as this without someone picking it apart)
Only if you speak (or write) the king's English -- leaving a preposition (adverb, really, in this case) at the end of a sentence is perfectly good Germanic grammar. The real problem is that at some point in English history there were some bozo's without enough to do or drink, so they decided pull one over on the rest of us and insisted that English should resemble Latin in this regard.

Originally Posted by Gargoyle
I know you were, and I appreciate it. I'm just surprised no one else flamed me (yet).
Patience, this is the internet. If you need a flaming, it will come.

Originally Posted by Gargoyle
And it's a huge difference. The LCC's like WN can cherry pick, only go to the most lucrative markets. The legacies have to maintain a very broad network....
Now back to our regularly scheduled topic -- that's by choice. Nobody forces them to maintain those broad networks, which effectively render them overstretched.

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