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Old May 16th, 2004, 07:58 AM
Catharine Honeyman
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Default NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar

Southwest Airlines' profit soars

Bloomberg News

Southwest Airlines Co. increased first-quarter profit and Continental
Airlines Inc. narrowed its loss as more people flew than at the start of
2003, when the Iraq war and the SARS virus reduced travel.

Net income rose 8.3 percent to $24 million at Southwest, the largest
low-fare airline, as sales increased 9.8 percent to $1.48 billion. The net
loss at Continental, the fifth-biggest U.S. carrier, shrank by almost half
to $124 million as revenue climbed 11 percent to $2.27 billion.

Southwest has stayed profitable since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the
war and the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reduced
travel demand and spurred fare competition. Larger rivals such as
Continental cut costs to try to stem losses. UBS Securities analyst Samuel
Buttrick estimated U.S. airlines trimmed their loss excluding onetime costs
or gains by about half from a year earlier to $1.5 billion.

"You take a look at fundamentals and, outside of things like fuel or
weather, I'm seeing planes that are more full, companies that are beginning
to charge higher prices for the remaining seats and cost structures that
are becoming much more lean," said Jeffrey Kauffman, a Fulcrum Global
Partners analyst in New York. "What I'm seeing, at least at the margin, is
encouraging, although far from robust."

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Making the morbidly obese buy two seats has been a huge success.

NAAFA's airline tips: http://www.naafa.org/documents/brochures/airtips.html

NAAFA expresses outrage at SWA's two seat for morbidly obese people:
http://www.naafa.org/news/SWA_letter.html



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Old May 16th, 2004, 06:43 PM
Ed
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Default NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar

I have sat next to some of these "morbidly obese" people and half of them
infringed into my area. I think that it is only fair that a person buy what
it takes to fit his body.
Ed

"Catharine Honeyman" wrote in message
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Southwest Airlines' profit soars

Bloomberg News

Southwest Airlines Co. increased first-quarter profit and Continental
Airlines Inc. narrowed its loss as more people flew than at the start of
2003, when the Iraq war and the SARS virus reduced travel.

Making the morbidly obese buy two seats has been a huge success.

NAAFA's airline tips:

http://www.naafa.org/documents/brochures/airtips.html

NAAFA expresses outrage at SWA's two seat for morbidly obese people:
http://www.naafa.org/news/SWA_letter.html





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Old May 16th, 2004, 07:52 PM
Max Mustermann
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Default NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar

Cisco troll/netkook/asshole Michael Voight mrtravelkay trolled:

Catharine Honeyman wrote:


NAAFA's airline tips: http://www.naafa.org/documents/brochures/airtips.html


I don't understand this statement


Not surprising, since you seem to exist in a perpetual state of confusion and
mental retardation.......

About rogue Cisco employee and netkook/troll/usenet flooder
Michael Voight, alias "mrtravel", "mrtravelkay", etc.

"mrtavelkay" is the latest usenet handle of a brainless troll whose real name is
Michael Voight, e-mail .

Michael D. Voight
111 Bean Creek Rd, No. 118
Scotts Valley, CA 95066-4148
(831) 438-2485

He is better known by his previous stupid handle, "mrtravel".

The idiot works for Cisco in their Scotts Valley, California
Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and apparently they don't
keep him busy enough so he has to troll usenet newsgroups all day long from
work.

***WARNING: THIS IDIOT HAS BEEN CAUGHT FORGING PEOPLE'S IDENTITIES ON USENET
AND CANCELLING THEIR POSTS.***

If you are one of his victims, or are simply fed up with his trolling/newsgroup
flooding, forward his posts to .

He works in technical support, so forward them to
too.

See further below for more Cisco contact information.

He often posts through sbcglobal and prodigy, so forward them to
and as well.

His main hangout is alt.visa.us.marriage-based, a sleazy newsgroup where
foreigners wanting to immigrate to the US hook up with losers like Voight who
are willing to marry them for money so they can get their green card. Voight is
a pro at this, handing out daily advice on how to be a sleazoid like him and
sell green cards.

When he isn't giving out advice on how to commit federal crimes on
alt.visa.us.marriage-based he is usually on rec.travel.air flooding that
newsgroup with trolls and harassing posters and picking retarded fights with the
regular posters there.

He also tends to post a lot in the personals and penpals newsgroups as well as
the support groups for fat people, lonely folks, and for depression. Obviously
after his Russian Internet brides get their green cards they flee, leaving him
lonely and desperate for company. Maybe that's why he keeps a P.O. Box at the
post office, so he can get his personals mail the

Voight, Michael
P.O. Box 67016,
Scotts Valley, CA 95067
(408) 461-8707

He also seems to frequent the teenage newsgroups. Creepy.....

The idiot is a two-time high school dropout and had to join the Marines because
even the Army rejected him!

He's got a daughter in Orange County that one of his ex-wives had the
intelligence to take away from him. Lord only knows what could have
happened to her if she had continued to live with the kook. The other kids he
has belong to his previous Russian sleazy brides, and since they come and go so
do the kids. It wouldn't hurt to let Cisco know what kind of deviant sexual
pervert they have working for them.

Many people have wondered how Cisco ever hired such a psycho. It cheapens their
image and credibility in the corporate world after all. Well, they didn't hire
him directly, he came as baggage when they acquired the company he used to work
for, TGV Software. His e-mail address there used to be .

All intelligent members of the usenet community have killfiled him, so he takes
great pains to get past their killfiles by rubbing his only two cerebral neurons
together and coming up with gems like: mrtrav , mrtrav3
, mrraveltay , and mrtravelkay
, and mtravelkay and ""a.a\"@a,a,a.

Some of his other trolling aliases are Network Guy,
, sleepydoc , jlhunt
, and Lost 5 of 8 , mrt ,
news.sf.sbcglobal.net , not-nomen
, David Tanner
, Jeff Davies , BobTheBuilder
. The lastest product of his brain diarrhea is Bill
Clarkj .

It would be a good idea to call Cisco at 1-800-553-2447 and ask to speak with a
supervisor and explain that you are EXTREMELY unhappy that this idiot spends his
whole day at work playing on the internet on company time. THEY WILL NOT LIKE
THAT.

Then write to corporate headquarters explaining what this idiot is doing and
telling them HOW BAD IT IS FOR THEIR COMPANY IMAGE. They will LOVE that you
brought this to their attention:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
USA

Then also call them. You should always follow up email or letters with phone
calls. Always ask for supervisors or managers. Try to get as far up as
possible.

(408)526-4000
(800)553-NETS or
(800)553-6387

Contact Investor Relations and tell them you are interested in investing in
their company but won't do so until they get rid of this asshole who is wasting
company resources:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Investor Relations Department
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706
Phone: (408) 526-8890
Fax: (408) 526-4545
Email:


Might as well contact customer service too, they LOVE to hear about this type of
stuff:

USA 1 800 553 6387




Then finally, send letters with copies of his nasty posts addressed
personally to each one of the OFFICERS of the company using the
headquarters address. Believe me, they READ your complaints and are VERY
INTERESTED in them, especially if it's about one of their employees. They will
take a PERSONAL interest in rooting this ASSHOLE out of their company:

John Morgridge, Chairman
John Chambers, President, CEO
Donald Valentine, Vice Chairman
Larry Carter, CFO, Sr. VP-Fin. and Admin., Sec., Director
Richard Justice, Sr. VP, Worldwide Field Operations

Have fun!

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Old May 17th, 2004, 06:34 AM
mrtravelkay
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Max Mustermann wrote:

Cisco troll/netkook/asshole Michael Voight mrtravelkay trolled:


Hey Max, do you really think the city I live in has 2 different area
codes to serve its 11000 residents?

 




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