In a message dated 2/24/2004 10:19:17 AM US Mountain Standard Time,=20 B787300@xxxxxxx writes: > Now, hang on a minute. Let's look at those "industry leaders" and ask: Big= =20 > like how? Well, United parent UAL filed the largest bankruptcy in aviation= =20 > history ($25 billion in assets) in December 2002. That's big. American is=20 > weighted down with nearly $18 billion of debt on its books. That's pretty=20= big. And=20 > finally, the three large airlines lost a total of some $5.8 billion last=20 > year. That's big too.=20 >=20 > Now let's look at Southwest Airlines. Last year the company earned $442=20 > million=E2=80=94more than all the other U.S. airlines combined. Its market= capitalization=20 > of $11.7 billion is bigger than that of all its competitors combined, too.= =20 > And last May, for the first time, Southwest boarded more domestic customer= s=20 > than any other airline, according to the Department of Transportation.=20 Kudos to BAHA for writing such an excellent article on the airline I LUV to=20 fly! I realize it's hard for him to pen such lengthly prose with his hectic= =20 schedule, but this certainly earns my admiration for a job well done! Like=20= BAHA=20 says in a subsequent paragraph, the reason UA and other legacy carriers can'= t=20 duplicate Southwest is because they just don't get it. His candor is beyond= =20 reproach, even though LUV does not offer Channel 9 traffic talk! RT Simpson Phoenix Fan of buying more LUV under $14 a share!