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>                 Biggirl comments on: >                 ["...no way BA/AA..."] > I kinda wish DL would do that on their planes, something like a > "…leave a bit of DTW for us, will ya NW…?" or something like that! > Maryanne. > ..who gets upset just thinking about the stranglehold Northwest has on > Detroit Metro Airport!  

Well… it’s not much different than the stronghold US has on PIT, or CO on IAH, or DL at CVG and ATL; or AA on SJU … and so on…  It’s a benefit of the hub and spoke system. At any rate, DL actually contributed a bit to NW’s stronghold at Metro when, a few years ago, they sold to them the LGW route DL acquired from the old Pan Am.. -If you recall, both DL and NW bid for the route authority when it was initiatilly up for grabs from PA; DL eventually got it after "promising" to keep the service out of DTW and not transferring it somewhere else, like CVG. While DL acually kept the route for a couple of years, the service benefited tremendously from NW’s feed at this hub airport when they finally acquired it. Just a thought… Rolando   — My opinions only, of course!  To reply, please remove "NO SPAM" from my addess.

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 RZ> At any rate, DL actually contributed a bit to NW’s stronghold at  RZ> Metro when, a few years ago, they sold to them the LGW route DL  RZ> acquired from the old Pan Am.. -If you recall, both DL and NW bid for  RZ> the route authority when it was initiatilly up for grabs from PA; DL  RZ> eventually got it after "promising" to keep the service out of DTW  RZ> and not transferring it somewhere else, like CVG. Actually, part of the argument was that the service (which was actually CLE-DTW-LGW) would continue to have the CLE connection if DL got it, but if NW got it, they’d naturally dump the CLE tag-end and make it just a DTW-LGW hub flight. Then DL dumped the tag-end, and later sold the route to NW anyway.  Sigh. — Geographic locations in DNS! <URL: http://www.kei.com/homepages/ckd/dns-loc/ >

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> > I rather think the point is not how many people see it but who… Which > is of course BA/AA employees and airport staff in all of Virgin’s > destinations > Plus of course you cannot get a more prestigious bill board than a > 747-400!!

I saw the same message on a VS plane here in HKG, but I could have sworn it was an Airbus, I don’t think they use 747s on this route , , , ? SJM in HKG

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>> > I rather think the point is not how many people see it but who… Which > > is of course BA/AA employees and airport staff in all of Virgin’s > > destinations > Plus of course you cannot get a more prestigious bill board than a > 747-400!! >I saw the same message on a VS plane here in HKG, but I could have sworn >it was an Airbus, I don’t think they use 747s on this route , , , ?

Don’t know about that, but I flew on a 747-400 last week with that message on it. Some passengers laughed and noticed it, so it must be effective

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I rather think the point is not how many people see it but who… Which is of course BA/AA employees and airport staff in all of Vrigins destinations Good for them !!!!!

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                Biggirl comments on:                 ["...no way BA/AA..."] I kinda wish DL would do that on their planes, something like a "…leave a bit of DTW for us, will ya NW…?" or something like that! Maryanne. ..who gets upset just thinking about the stranglehold Northwest has on Detroit Metro Airport!  

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> I rather think the point is not how many people see it but who… Which > is of course BA/AA employees and airport staff in all of Virgin’s > destinations

Plus of course you cannot get a more prestigious bill board than a 747-400!! — Visit my Scottish Airport pages at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/jcurry        The top UK Air Travel newsgroup is alt.travel.uk.air        Please ask your Internet Service Provider for access. There are over 58 airports in the UK, post news about your airport now.

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