The spin you're putting on display here, World Fraudster, is hysterical.
WorldTraveler said:
finally, the Euro has lost 20% of its value relative to the Dollar over the last year but the Real has lost 33% of its value relative to the dollar and the Bolivar is not even exchangeable on int'l markets.
Actually, over the last 12 months the Euro lost ~25% against the US$
The UK pound lost I think ~15% against the US$
The Yen lost I think ~20% against the US$
The Russian Rouble has been down by ~50% against the US$, but is doing better these days.
The Brazilian Real over the last year was at some point down ~36% against the US$ but seems to have rebounded / or be on the rebound (at least according to the exchange rate today). Similarly, I think the Argentinian Peso, over the last year has been down as much as ~15% against the dollar but according to today's exchange rate is on the rebound.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business/market_data/currency/12/13/default.stm
Regardless, what I'm trying to point out is that:
1) the World Fraudster still has some minor math problems
and, more importantly
2) just like AA, if not more so, DL has exposure to countries (Japan, Eurozone, Russia) where the value of the local currency is declining against the US$.
Currency devaluation is not a specific problem to AA, no matter how many times a certain poster says so.
WorldTraveler said:
but of course all of the smart asses (actually dumb asses is more appropriate) come out of the woodwork because they aren't smart enough to follow what is said so they instead just jump on anything they can instead.
and yes Kev, DL's largest city in Europe by local revenue is London - which uses the Pound.
remember that DL sends just under a dozen planes to London and there are no connections. DL sends 15-20 planes each to CDG and AMS and a big chunk of the revenue is connecting to elsewhere in Europe and the world.
It's amazing how World Fraudster is pushing the DL is the greatest airline in the universe narrative, and now has brought in London UK, as the savior for DL's massive exposure to the Eurozone.
This same dumb ass, on numerous occasions has written diatribes about AA's stupid strategy on focusing so much of it's TATL network to London and at the same time bragging just how big DL TATL network is in Europe - specifically continental Europe.
Well, let's take a look at continental Europe / Eurozone, where DL is the alleged supreme USA-based carrier: Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands [nice deflection / spin on how those 15-20 DL flights there do not matter as they are connections], Spain, Belgium, etc. etc. etc. Oh, and for certain countries, Italy, France, Spain, they're an economic basket case in addition to being in the Eurozone.
Who's the dumbass now?