In the news this week... (interesting stats)
 

From the Brancatelli file on www.biztravel.com :

1. Busiest business travel route: NYC-LAX. 7300 people daily, AA has 35% of market, UA 21%.

2. Second busiest: Honolulu-Kahului. 6800 pax daily, Aloha and Hawaiian has 98% of market.

3. Third busiest: Boston-NYC. 6,500 daily. This is also the most profitable route at $0.60/mile. (The 15th most busiest route, New York - San Juan, is the least profitable ($0.092) among the top 25 busiest routes.)

4. On the average, US airlines has oldest planes (avg 12.1 years). Asia has the newest (6.6). Euro is 8.8.

5. Average age of NWA's fleet = 20 yrs; Alaska = 7.6. Iberia = 12.9; Swissair = 5.1.

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kiklen kneed two cheng hes ubb cod an typ et rite.

I know my typing must have gone to hell when it is corrected by arturo!

arturo appears to be of the "do as I say, not as I do" school of management...

arturo atend mushroom skool of menageriemint.

One man's mushroom is another's fungus.

arturo se gatow knot unerstan bout mushrooms.
gatow bin menageried by mushrooms. an elsow gatow arturo kno who fungis amungis es.

How interesting. I was just shopping for a fare for NYC from LAX. And by being a very busy route I thought that I could find competitive rates. But then again, since they are probably 90% for business rates are kept pretty high.


Tim


ps. I think I need a "Arturonese" thesaurus.

I think arturo attends the "do (as I say, not as I) do" school of management...

arturo giv yu defynytion of hes skool--abjecktiv of mushroom skool is "to keep em en dark an feed em lots of doo-doo."

management by mushrooms definition (sorry for an inadequate translation from german):

- let your people in the dark,
- daily distribute some "sh it",
- when they are grown up, cut their heads.

FYI (sorry to go non-omni, but pandering to CATMAN)

CO's EWR-LAX fares for the end of the year (I've been pricing October for tht last few months) just got cut in half - $3xx down from $6xx..

arturo sey gracias two rudy. he kno mushrooms. butt rudy, yu sey "sheet" en yur massage. arturo sey "doo-doo" en hes an "doo-doo" niser then "sheet".

Thank you NJDavid for getting us back on topic (if only temporarily!)

Now if CO is reducing rates, I'm wondering if the other airlines will follow!

OMNI: This cat does not care about mushrooms or whatever else that's not travel related on this forum! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

If you eat the right type of mushrooms they can make you fly...

sorry Catman, but I couldn't resist. I will go back to being a meece now.

That's ok Baobab. IN fact, since I'm going to be away and you were so funny and made me laugh you are welcome to fill in as CMDR Catcop if you so desire.

But give the mushrooms to Arturo. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Thank you, Catman.

Please note, Matt Wald and co - no tree puns will be tolerated in the Cat-Cop's absence!! (and we all saw Catman's cats doing the arturo wave...)

Very OMNI: My mind's on Hurricanes!

The cats will watch the board as well!!!

Eddie just sharpened his claws.

And YAZ likes to meow in the dead of night and wake up tired frequent flyers dreaming of double mile bonuses.

So enjoy and no tree references and no cat attacks and be nice to everybody!

HAVE A MEOWY WEEKEND!

arturo sey "trees" ar nise. meybe comicmander katkop knot hav kats sharpin klaws on nise "trees".

I'd be worried about you being deputy catcop, Baobab, but I do believe that your bark is worse than your bite! I'll TRY to leaf you alone while catman's gone by branching out into other areas of humor. Besides, it gets boring if you put your roots down into one type of joke. So, knock on wood, you won't see me going out on a limb to make tree jokes at all...

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Have we sunk to puns?


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Cheers,
HKF

Matt - the Cat-Cop will get you on his return, and in the meantime, beware: I may set arturo on you!

arturo themk matted walls uglie. matts fer wypin feet en frunt of doors, lik dormatts. walds fer fun parcs, lik en vakashun muvey, "wally wald". ef arturo mett walled, he knot lik et, kaus awl walleds plain unles yu heng matted pitcher on et.

Quit picking on Baobab. She's oak by me.

arturo wan to kno how yu tel ef babybab tree es "she"?

I partook of one of PremEx's cubanos in his presence, arturo...

And I thought I was a fig to you, PremEx.


(I'm not a terribly good Co-Cop, am I? Oh well. This thread is officially declared "OMNI")

None of you are correct. The only way one can differentiate between types of trees is to get/ask a woodpecker. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

If you want to know why, e-mail me so I can send you the joke!

Sorry if I offended anyone with my post.

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arturo sey babybab be "pine wiff me".

there are no words...... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Catman, where are you?

arturo themk keklen out of lin wif hes joke. arturo sugist keklen edict joke or mak post mor nise. arturo reely mad now!

Well, Ol' JAWs is going to agree with arturo. This is definitely NOT a "shady" joke board. Frankly, I am surprised that kyklin posted such, since kyklin's posts are generally in line with the spirit of FlyerTalk. kyklin, please delete or edit your post.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

JAWs

Sorry for starting this. I guess I'm a real sap. Well, with baobab at the elm as cmdr catcop, the bloom is off my pun blossom. By the way, it's pine with me if you want to get personal, Arty, but remember, when push comes to shove, no one will stump for you if I have to beat you to a pulp http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif!!

OK, OK, I'll stop, I promise! Blame it on a virtual friday (no work for me tommorrow)...

kyklin, Thank you very much for the edit.

Now, let's get on with the professional reputation (except Matt) that we have established at FlyerTalk.

Our "proffessional reputation"?

and that would be......


conniving, scheming and otherwise surreptitiously gaining as much miles as we can in any way possible????


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NJD, I'm amazed at the command you possess of a professional vocabulary!!!!!! Well done!

I have to say that I did enjoy kyklin's joke, and though it may have been somewhat adult in nature, it was very funny...

It's worth e-mailing him to ask for it.

Thanks to all for keeping this a G-rated site.

It's begining to look like a Tree-Rated site to me. And Matt Walnut...great job as usual.

Matt and I are distant cousins, PremEx: Wald means 'forest' in German.

And if my mother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.

ashes to ashes......