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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." ------- 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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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 ... 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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NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar
Catharine Honeyman wrote:
NAAFA's airline tips: http://www.naafa.org/documents/brochures/airtips.html I don't understand this statement "The chances are that the passenger who will be seated next to you won't say anything; if he does, smile pleasantly and say that you'll both be more comfortable if the armrest is up." How does sharing my space make me more comfortable? |
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NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar
Max Mustermann wrote:
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....... So, I guess that it is perfectly logical to your idiotic mind that if a larger person is next to you that the armrest being up would make you more comfortable. You have never been on a plane, have you? |
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NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar
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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NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2008 Contact: John J. Tormey III, Esq.: ’, 1-212-410-4142 Tom Sullivan, “Quiet Rockland”: 1-845-480-1088 “QUIET ROCKLAND” CALLS FOR NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Rockland County, NY – March 12, 2008: Aero-activist group Quiet Rockland of Rockland County, New York, enraged over “callous criminal disregard for safety and human life” demonstrated by Southwest Airlines (NYSE: “LUV”) and the FAA, today called for: (1) a nationwide traveler and consumer boycott of Southwest, and (2) a federal criminal investigation of Southwest and “failed regulator” FAA to be spear-headed by the United States Attorney General and a special prosecutor. Said John J. Tormey III, Esq., attorney and Quiet Rockland co-founder: “The persons that should be flying Southwest at this point, should be only those referred by Doctor Kevorkian. Although the depraved Southwest spin-machine audaciously ‘assures’ us Southwest’s six (6) cracked-fuselage aircraft were “never a safety problem”, Southwest should tell that to the victims of the 1988 Aloha Airlines disaster. There, metal fatigue on an aging Boeing 737 caused 18 feet of fuselage to be ripped off the plane causing grievous injuries and loss of life. House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar in his press conference Saturday, posted on “www.cspan.org”, presented detailed evidence incriminating Southwest and “Bobby” Sturgell’s failed FAA. The incriminating events occurred while “Bobby” Sturgell was Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of the FAA. On Saturday, Representative Oberstar thereupon rightfully excoriated the aero-perps for their long-standing “tombstone mentality”. Although criminal and morally reprehensible, and now apparent after a many-month detailed Congressional investigation, Southwest and FAA are clearly in the insalubrious business of making those tombstones happen, in addition to simply reacting to those tombstones post facto. “As recently as last year, Southwest Airlines, with the complicity of supposed federal regulator FAA, on at least 47 of Southwest’s Boeing 737 aircraft, on between 1,451 and 60,000 flights, over a period of two-and-one-half years, deliberately put approximately 200,000 or more unsuspecting travelers in harm’s way - making them fly in un-inspected, non-compliant, aged, and in some cases fuselage-cracked commercial aircraft. Southwest knew the names and faces of their potential victims. Southwest gladly took their money, and for that matter at this point Southwest owes each of them at least a rebate in full of their ticket prices. This was not mere negligence. Irrespective of what forensic lesser charge might technically ultimately apply once further Congressional investigation concludes, the acts and omissions of Southwest and collaborator FAA were tantamount to attempted murder, on a massive scale. “This WILL not stand. “Quiet Rockland asks and encourages those Southwest employees tired of subscribing to their company’s tombstone culture, to leave their sinking airship now to find other and better employ at a responsible airline that actually acknowledges the dignity of the individual human traveler. We further ask every American consumer to now act in solidarity - cancel all flights and other business with Southwest – boycott the airline which we today re-name “Air Kevorkian” - and just say “No” to Southwest, to FAA, and to the greed of the aeromercantile complex that continually and habitually puts profits over people’s lives. And, as to Southwest stockholders? Vote your conscience”.# -- Message posted using http://www.talkabouttravelling.com/g...ec.travel.air/ More information at http://www.talkabouttravelling.com/faq.html |
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NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar
"jtormey3" wrote in
lkabouttravelling.c om: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2008 drivel snipped Wow, the nuts are starting to fall from the trees. -- |
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NAAFA's boycott of Southwest Airlines causes profits to soar
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2008 Contact: John J. Tormey III, Esq.: ?T, 1-212-410-4142 Tom Sullivan, ?oQuiet Rockland?: 1-845-480-1088 ?oQUIET ROCKLAND? CALLS FOR NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Rockland County, NY ?" March 12, 2008: Aero-activist group Quiet Rockland of Rockland County, New York, enraged over ?ocallous criminal disregard for safety and human life? demonstrated by Southwest Airlines (NYSE: ?oLUV?) and the FAA, today called for: (1) a nationwide traveler and consumer boycott of Southwest, and (2) a federal criminal investigation of Southwest and ?ofailed regulator? FAA to be spear-headed by the United States Attorney General and a special prosecutor. Said John J. Tormey III, Esq., attorney and Quiet Rockland co-founder: ?oThe persons that should be flying Southwest at this point, should be only those referred by Doctor Kevorkian. Although the depraved Southwest spin-machine audaciously ?~assures?T us Southwest?Ts six (6) cracked-fuselage aircraft were ?onever a safety problem?, Southwest should tell that to the victims of the 1988 Aloha Airlines disaster. There, metal fatigue on an aging Boeing 737 caused 18 feet of fuselage to be ripped off the plane causing grievous injuries and loss of life. House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar in his press conference Saturday, posted on ?owww.cspan.org?, presented detailed evidence incriminating Southwest and ?oBobby? Sturgell?Ts failed FAA. The incriminating events occurred while ?oBobby? Sturgell was Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of the FAA. On Saturday, Representative Oberstar thereupon rightfully excoriated the aero-perps for their long-standing ?otombstone mentality?. Although criminal and morally reprehensible, and now apparent after a many-month detailed Congressional investigation, Southwest and FAA are clearly in the insalubrious business of making those tombstones happen, in addition to simply reacting to those tombstones post facto. ?oAs recently as last year, Southwest Airlines, with the complicity of supposed federal regulator FAA, on at least 47 of Southwest?Ts Boeing 737 aircraft, on between 1,451 and 60,000 flights, over a period of two-and-one-half years, deliberately put approximately 200,000 or more unsuspecting travelers in harm?Ts way - making them fly in un-inspected, non-compliant, aged, and in some cases fuselage-cracked commercial aircraft. Southwest knew the names and faces of their potential victims. Southwest gladly took their money, and for that matter at this point Southwest owes each of them at least a rebate in full of their ticket prices. This was not mere negligence. Irrespective of what forensic lesser charge might technically ultimately apply once further Congressional investigation concludes, the acts and omissions of Southwest and collaborator FAA were tantamount to attempted murder, on a massive scale. ?oThis WILL not stand. ?oQuiet Rockland asks and encourages those Southwest employees tired of subscribing to their company?Ts tombstone culture, to leave their sinking airship now to find other and better employ at a responsible airline that actually acknowledges the dignity of the individual human traveler. We further ask every American consumer to now act in solidarity - cancel all flights and other business with Southwest ?" boycott the airline which we today re-name ?oAir Kevorkian? - and just say ?oNo? to Southwest, to FAA, and to the greed of the aeromercantile complex that continually and habitually puts profits over people?Ts lives. And, as to Southwest stockholders? Vote your conscience?.# -- Message posted using http://www.talkabouttravelling.com/g...ec.travel.air/ More information at http://www.talkabouttravelling.com/faq.html |
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