Yee haw. How I love the smell of airline earnings every quarter.

Or something like that.

PlaneBusiness Banter subscribers — we’ll be posting this week’s issue in the morning. I’m just finishing up our in-depth look at Continental’s results the airline announced today. Then all we need to do is our final edits. But we’ll wait to do that with fresh eyes. Mine are a bit crossed right now.

Something I noticed that was a bit unusual in the CAL call today. Usually the folks at Continental are obsessively conservative when it comes to talking about trends. The airline is not noted for its overly optimistic spoutings.

But today, against the backdrop of the tone we heard in American’s call yesterday — the folks at Continental were almost, well, borderline giddy talking about how they saw demand — going forward.

Okay, so maybe they weren’t giddy, but there was sure more optimism coming over the lines today from the folks at CAL than I had anticipated.

Again, PBB subscribers — we’ll post tomorrow in the AM.

Ticker: American, Continental (NYSE:AMR), (NYSE:CAL)