He was getting trounced pretty well this morning. Now it's nothing but bug jokes and complaints about the :rolleyes: nature of recent threads. If that's a complaint being leveled in UA-land, we're all screwed.

I hate people :(

IAH-AKL is shorter than EWR-HKG

I am seeing them to this with real estate right now, it is really fishy seeing this going on:

big drug store builds building
lists store on private site were only a few people see it, subsidiary company buys the building at an inflated price(5 million), company that built the building has a set 25 year lease for an insane rate (upwards of 500k a year).

So, what seems fishy? Why would they sell the building, only to lease it at a FAR HIGHER price? and why would subsidiary company be the buyer?

Lobbyists at work, Greatest Hits Edition.

Simple, but effective. ^

I disagree. I think if the GOP was in charge they'd be making their own set of errors.

Whoever had been sworn in, in January inherited one of the worst set of circumstances for an incoming President. Obama is proving that he's working towards getting us out of the economic basement. His administration is putting forward plans that seem to be working in the short-term (which was desperately needed).

What kills me is [I feel like] we're setting ourselves up for failure. We can debate all day (and OMNI P/R often does) about whether it would have been better to dig the hole we were in deeper in favor of developing a more sustainable plan vs cutting off the loss and creating an unsustainable short-term gain.

I see both sides of the argument. And, I guess we've selected the latter. I just hope someone in charge of something realizes this and work towards transitioning towards a long-term viable economic growth before the next collapse.

Even with ETOPS rules in effect? CO doesn't fly over Mexico into the Pacific so they would head to the west coast and then start heading SW. Though, QF does LAX-AKL on a 332 now so in theory, a 772 should be able to do it from IAH thought it would be landing on fumes.

I would imagine it relates to taxes and incentives offered to build vs operate.

Don't worry. It's been discussed. Neither of us has any great attachment to Atlanta and there's never been any question that his career advancement will most definitely come with a relocation.

Weight restrictions take care of that, me thinks.

The problem is the ETOPS, the IAH-AKL path goes over an area where CO's 772s are not within the their certification.
Also a while back DL asked Boeing to stretch the range of the LR to make US East Coast to SYD work, they really want to fly nonstop to SYD from the East Coast.

The only way IAH-AKL is kosher on a Great Circle routing is to have 330-minute ETOPS. That means it has to be flown by a 77W, no?

There's no way that the US Government was torturing terrorists. It had to be DL doing the dirty work.

When is boeing going to get past all these ETOPS rules by making a flying cruise ship that is fueled by sea water and fish parts? :)