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Old 06-12-2012, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Rocky Mountain Xplorer
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
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Chicago took my Continental headquarters !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
Get over it, that's life in the real world of business.
Chicago also took Boeings headquarters and everybody is doing just fine in Seattle and Boeing remains one of Seattle's biggest and most important employers.
Grow up, get over it and move on Houston !
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Old 06-12-2012, 02:55 PM
 
Location: Westbury
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wow...your poor argument devolved pretty quickly.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:02 PM
 
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
Chicago took my Continental headquarters !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
Get over it, that's life in the real world of business.
Chicago also took Boeings headquarters and everybody is doing just fine in Seattle and Boeing remains one of Seattle's biggest and most important employers.
Grow up, get over it and move on Houston !
That is excellent advice... for yourself. In regards to the City Council decision. Get over it, that's life in the real world of business.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Houston
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
Chicago took my Continental headquarters !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !
Get over it, that's life in the real world of business.
Chicago also took Boeings headquarters and everybody is doing just fine in Seattle and Boeing remains one of Seattle's biggest and most important employers.
Grow up, get over it and move on Houston !
You really have nothing intelligent to say do you?
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:13 PM
 
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Yes this is nothing more than a smokescreen by United to cut employees and flights from Houston because there is quite a bit of overlap of flights from the merger with Continental. They are using the city of Houston as a scapegoat! Man up United and tell the public what's really going on, mergers are difficult and cuts will be made, we can take it. It is pretty obvious when you start making cuts now and competition from Hobby will not begin until 2015, don't take us for fools!
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:52 PM
 
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Get over it, that's life in the real world of business.
Chicago also took Boeings headquarters and everybody is doing just fine in Seattle and Boeing remains one of Seattle's biggest and most important employers.
So what is your original point then? That Houston will do just fine and that United will remain one of Houston's biggest and most important employers? OK. Point taken. I'm really scared now.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:54 PM
 
Location: classified
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United is not going to get rid of their hub because Houston is they're only port of entry into Central/South America, and getting rid of it would stupid.

Anyways those job cuts were probably already planned to begin with to get rid of existing overlap, only instead of fuel costs, poor load factors, etc, United is going to use Hobby Airport and Southwest as they're BS excuse.
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Old 06-12-2012, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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This ancient lesson, unfortunately, was lost on Houston's city council, which voted 16-1 last month to enable Southwest (LUV_) to build an international terminal at Houston Hobby Airport, diminishing United's (UAL_) hub at Houston Bush Intercontinental. There United operates the third biggest U.S. hub, with 650 daily departures to 177 destinations including 64 international destinations.
As John Kasarda, professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, has said, in the 18th century the great cities were ports. In the 19th century, the great cities were railroad cities. In the 20th, they were cities with good highway access. In the 21st century, they are cities with non-stop international flights.

What misled the Houston council? First, it is far too easy to argue that competition is wonderful and solves every problem and government should never stand in the way. Also, the 2010 merger between United and Continental bred resentment because the hometown carrier closed its Houston headquarters. And who can resist the promise of lower fares to Mexico City and Cancun and San Jose del Cabo and the engaging charm of Southwest CEO Gary Kelly?
Houston: You Blew It on United Hub - TheStreet
I thought all republicans are pro free market lol
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Old 06-12-2012, 06:01 PM
 
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I thought all republicans are pro free market lol
Free market my a...
they believe in giving everything and anything to corporations "to make our life's better" until the day that they take their money and factories to China.
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Old 06-12-2012, 06:21 PM
 
Location: Rocky Mountain Xplorer
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That is excellent advice... for yourself. In regards to the City Council decision. Get over it, that's life in the real world of business.
Oh no they are city councilmen, that's a political decision, not a decision based on sound business practices or economics.
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