building monuments with paper!

You may be right. I just recalled them being a regional operator at one point.

^ Congrats!!!!!

I can fly on Tuesday. Even more tempting.

If it's not much more expensive, I think you found a winning plan. ^

A318s are nice and rare...

ALCO, I don't agree with Mccain on much, didn't even know it was mccain (until i did a quote and saw url, I did not click the url) as i don't agree with govt at all much, but it is exactly that. Net neutrality is a farce. I am a provider of internet services that pushes content out, not owning the lines, and I fully disagree with 'net neutrality' legislation.
it is not a level playing field as they are claiming with this net neutrality, I already pay far far far more for my content to make it to the eyeballs that those of google that are pushing for this, they say they are being.....oh I don't really want to get into it unless you really care. I pay MORE, 100's of times more than the likes of google, and I am not complaining. It is the cost of doing business, I have to buy the internet connections to get the content out.

I do care. I think that expansion of throttling will drive smaller players out of business and/or greatly increase costs that will eventually be passed on to end-users. Whether Net Neutrality as presently conceived is the best possible solution to this dilemma is certainly open to debate. However, I don't think throttling will be a net positive for smaller businesses and end-users of teh toobz. I think it will result in a small number of established firms having a stranglehold on meaningful access to the network, which they can use as an anti-competitive weapon to protect their own business and drive others out of business.

ETA - IMO, throttling is an artificial and unnecessary layer of complexity added to the network for the sole purpose of squeezing revenue out of users. It is a stealth internet tax that benefits only a few large corporations.

I was fortunate enough to snag one on AF twice. They seem to like sending them to German destinations (STR and MUC were my flights).

Throttling has almost nothing to do with net neutrality to be honest :D having caps on net up front is not an issue, in fact it is a core of my business. I sell x level of services at one tier, then another. the net has to be throttled at some level or it would simply not work. there is more committed bandwidth to consumers than available backhaul.

Judging by posts, the DO people are back on the plane and heading back to FRA.

Selling bandwidth and throttling are two separate issues.

F9 isn't bad, though now that other airlines have live TV their main selling point isn't as big a deal. Fly them now before Republic replaces them with E175s... :rolleyes:

Remind me again who spent the money to develop the Internet?

Yeah, so would almost everyone else in the know.

Sounds like someone in The Box needs to read up on their facts a little before posting...

Al Gore, when he was working as a Secret Agent for DARPA. :D