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[Autothrust Blue]

Spirit and Allegiant’s margins during the Great Recession suggest ULCC’s outperform in a bad economy.

Shhh, don't burst their bubble.

Smug superiority aside, revenue seats/sq. ft. wins.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I’m open to any suggestion(s) of airline history books. I just bought Alaska’s ‘Characters and Characters’ and that seems like a long read. I’ll dive into it soon.

A good yarn, satisfactory. In fact, I'd call that a fantastic story.

R.E.G. Davies did a very good history of the Air Line to about the mid-1990s (and more importantly, it gives Western its due). In fact, just about anything that R.E.G. Davies has written is pretty good.

I very much enjoyed Twelve Years of Turbulence, which details the story of American, from 9/11 to the somewhat delayed bankruptcy. While silent on the issue of MQ, it is an interesting look behind the scenes written from the senior corporate counsel's perspective.

As far as non-aviation books go, Bad Blood — detailing the incredible fraud that is Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos — was almost a one-sitting read for me when it came out. I also very much enjoyed a novel by Richard Russo called Straight Man, which details the adventure of the (interim but kinda permanent) chair of a fictional state university's English department; if you are not a fan of or have never worked in academe, you may not find it as appealing as I did. (Straight Man is a minor masterpiece, I think.)

 

[derg]

5 days of reserve and haven’t been used for 4 of them. I’m bored and thats not a bad problem to have. Can you believe I went to the library and got a book finished in 4 days? Sky Gods, the fall of Pan Am. Eye opener, I had no idea about the problems that plagued Pan Am and how much of it was political.

I’m open to any suggestion(s) of airline history books. I just bought Alaska’s ‘Characters and Characters’ and that seems like a long read. I’ll dive into it soon.

If you're bored, go read about post-reconstruction America like I told you to in another thread. I can assign homework!

 

[Autothrust Blue]

If you're bored, go read about post-reconstruction America like I told you to in another thread. I can assign homework!

I even managed to make you look up a word yesterday - am proud.

 

[ian]

I honestly think that the company involved is at best a bull crap factory and at worst is in possession, and using for its own gain, software and intellectual property that belongs to [Harm to ongoing matter].

If there’s ever a shop I want my money back from, of the purveyors of horse • and snake oil, it’s that one.

you are probably the first person in history that is a dissatisfied customer of theirs.