Stop the incoming! Stop! Stop!

No question. This week is the heaviest week we will see this quarter in terms of major and not-so-major airline earnings reports.

And on top of all the biggies who had already reported this week, then Frontier had to go and add its numbers to the mix last night. Thanks guys.

Looking at where we are in the writing and editing process — I am forecasting either a very late posting tonight for this week’s issue or it may be Saturday. Big, big, issue this week.

But that is one of the beauties of Internet publishing. We can either give you something at the same time every week — or we can give you the full story we think is important when we get finished writing and editing it.

As I once told a subscriber who wrote to me and complained that we did not post at the same time every week, “We are not a print publication. We are an Internet-based publication. That is an advantage. I think our subscribers would rather have the full enchilada then just a piece of one — which is then pushed out the door in an attempt to meet some arbitrary deadline.”

That’s so dead tree media.

I was glad to read the editor of Texas Monthly more or less talk about the same thing recently, as he explained why it was that the publication is now using its website to release singular stories on a totally “as warranted” basis — instead of waiting for the normal print publishing deadline for its dead tree flagship publication.

Then again, I guess I could clone myself. That would solve the problem and increase my productivity by 100%.

Heh. This is starting to sound like one of those goofy Southwest Airlines commercials.

One bullet point before I leave — as of this posting, crude futures are back up over $91 and change.

Have a good Friday everybody. I’m off to dig through spreadsheets, earnings call transcripts and analyst reports.