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 clich� 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.