ClueByFour
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By this logic, I've never seen a Charlotte NASCAR team. Concord ain't Charlotte.
(I can't tell from a map whether Robby Gordon's shop is in Huntersville or not, but you get the point).
BOS,LGA,andLAS bases to close in 2010
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By this logic, I've never seen a Charlotte NASCAR team. Concord ain't Charlotte.
(I can't tell from a map whether Robby Gordon's shop is in Huntersville or not, but you get the point).
Never claimed anything about NASCAR, NASCAR's HOF and Brian France's office is in Charlotte, been there.
Most teams are actually based in Mooresville, NC which is a beautiful town north of Charlotte. Then Huntersville and Concord have the rest, there are teams based in VA and even one in Denver, CO.
What you must have actually meant it Lowes Motor Speedway, which use to be Charlotte Motor Speedway is in Concord, NC.
And there is no "home" team in NASCAR, now is there?
Bad comparison.
Most teams are actually based in Mooresville, NC which is a beautiful town north of Charlotte. Then Huntersville and Concord have the rest, there are teams based in VA and even one in Denver, CO.
What you must have actually meant it Lowes Motor Speedway, which use to be Charlotte Motor Speedway is in Concord, NC.
And there is no "home" team in NASCAR, now is there?
Bad comparison.
Consolidation;
1. to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
2. to discard the unused or unwanted items of and organize the remaining: She consolidated her home library.
3. to make solid or firm; solidify; strengthen: to consolidate gains.
4. Military. to strengthen by rearranging the position of ground combat troops after a successful attack.
US Airways - by closing BOS, LGA, and LAS - is consolidating its route network. US Airways merging with another airline would also be consolidation.
So, yes. You are right. combining 2 airlines into 1 is consolidation. But also, combining hubs and focus cities also is consolidation. I mean, when I say combine - I hope you all know I mean combine the network and traffic flows and gate swaps as opposed to literally picking up Boston and putting it beside DCA or somthing.
God knows some of you probably will think that.
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Much truth to that. Employee - pay freezes for a few years. Franke - 600+% pay raise. Late 90's if I remember correctly.
ClueByFour
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But the HQ is in Daytona. (see how fun this is)
No. I very deliberately meant to imply the foolishness in suggesting that the Pats are not a Boston team. Charlotte's not a NASCAR town is an equally stupid statement, thus the fair comparison.
As an aside, I also very deliberately meant to imply that Robby Gordon's may be the only shop that might actually be based in Charlotte. I don't know where the municipal lines lay exactly, but I thought the part of the outerbelt ending by his shop (right where 77 cuts in) was in Huntersville. I'm also pretty sure that the 'belt does not end right by his shop, but I typically approach CLT from either the south or west, and when I visited said shop, 485 ended there. But I can't speak to the municipal boundaries in Mecklenburg county down to the inch.
Seems they also named the Northern Arizona State University School of Business after him as well.......Dougie's Mentor
William Franke School of Business
It's a dry heat in AZ......and in hell
Let's get back on topic, ladies and gentlemen. By the way, the topic is the closing LCC bases--not NASCAR locations, Pro football team domiciles, or the afterlife addresses of former CEOS.
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I'm not sure dropping everything between BOS and the Caribbean except one or two weekly frequencies a week is "a few" but the point was that it was mainline flying being reduced in BOS. Somebody has a crazy idea that mainline wasn't being reduced there.
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Lord, a mercy!
BOS flight crews fly all over the east as well as the west. LAX, SFO, etc.
I think the question of where does mainline fly out of BOS refers to non-stop mainline flights operated out of BOS not the crews that work them. The mainline flights that operate out of BOS can be operated by any crew from any crew base.
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Seems they also named the Northern Arizona State University School of Business after him as well.......Dougie's Mentor
William Franke School of Business
It's a dry heat in AZ......and in hell
I was working in HQ on his last day, we were ordered to go down to the lobby to clap for him when he left.
Of course we were clapping, that SOB was finally gone!
"US Airways Group Inc. Chief Executive Doug Parker says the carrier has no plans to cut back its operations in Charlotte even if Bank of America Corp. were to move its headquarters from the Queen City......."
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