Intern days

Today was pretty cool. The morning was taken up mostly by a quarterly flight operations meeting that Jake and I got to go to. It was kind of like my classes that describe how the airline industry works, except not only faaar more interesting, but way more funny. There are a lot of good people here at AA. Man, they really hate Southwest! Mostly because of the fight over Dallas Love Field. SW has basically all the gates and I guess there was a law passed called the “Wright Amendment” that disrupted their monopoly and allowed a small number of American Eagle flights to get in. Of course, SW is throwing a hissy fit and there’s propaganda all over Dallas on both sides. Most of Dallas is owned by AA (It’s pretty obvious) but SW has a lot of space over by Love Field. Love Field is kind of like Chicago Midway in that it was the original airport, but they needed a bigger one so they built DFW similar to O’Hare. Some talks are even going about closing Love Field for noise and $, which AA is like “ok”. AA says that with SW having a monopoly at Love, and AA having one at DFW, it’s raising prices to get to Dallas and hurting the industry. AA isn’t looking too bad these days. They would have made a profit this year if it wasn’t for fuel costs (war). They still have the most airplanes and the most passengers in the world, and their MD-80’s alone would make them the 5th largest airline in the world. Wow! If the MD-80 didn’t suck so much that’d be more awesome. The rest of the day I sat around and waited to go home. No jumpseating this weekend. Should be next weekend.

Later in the day other interns and I went to see X-Men 3. It was okay in the crappy sort of way. It had a different director and instead of having character development and plot twists it had lots of cgi and things blowing up. A cliché end to an awesome and promising series. I guess the ending made it open for another sequel. We didn’t know to stick around past the credits. I hate it when they do that.