i'm definitely not a big dougie fan but you have to admit that he has turned a chronically money losing airline around. Who cares if he crams in more coach seats if it results in 1 Bilion in profits since the merger was consumated? Obviously he is doing something right where Siegal and Lakefield failed. Now if you guys would just give up the USAPA/vacate Nic award pipe dream we could get our fair share of that profit. Sometimes I think the majority of the east enjoys being miserable.
this post reflects the same collective ignorance that, not ironically, plagues the ignorant "masses" (read: kool aid drinking westies).
DoUgIe did absolutely nothing. he is a disgrace, a scoundrel, and a coward. oh, lest i forget, a drunk. oh, and hedonistic. mustn't neglect the centerpiece of his antisocial profile.
you really should reflect on lakefield's resume before crediting DoUgIe with the financing supporting this airline abortion and the contracts sustaining its profits. it's laughable that you westies think otherwise. HA! laughable, yet convenient and easy to ignore fact. how consistent with the business casual "model"...compelling...
nevertheless, your post reminds me of a drink i had not too long ago in SXM. a rum floater: suspending your unsupported (yet convenient--'i don't have to think too hard') accolades for DoUgIe is a shameless and unforgivable attack on the years of service of the finest of the fine--east pilots. again, laughable. beyond laughable in this case.
DoUgIe redefines service with the "stylized" swoosh; westies redefine seniority with relativity. again, laughable. beyond laughable. but...you believe what you are telling yourself is true. that's probably the most pitiful dynamic of all this.
how's this for relativity: america west has always sucked. america west, now polluting the usair name, continues to suck.
full circle...
douglas parker, you are a complete and total disgrace!!