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What was the name of that truck?

Why can’t my eyes focus anymore? Why can’t I type?

All I have to say to PlaneBusiness Banter subscribers this week is that if you normally print this week’s issue out, be sure and have a lot of paper. It’s going to run 60 plus pages.

Ah. Earnings. I love them so.

Actually I do. This week we had a couple of earnings calls that were pretty interesting to listen to. US Airways is always a good call, and this quarter was no exception. Doug Parker went after JP Morgan’s Jamie Baker on the issue of liquidity in their call. Good job by the ex-CFO of America West. We like it when Doug gets feisty.

Dave Barger with JetBlue consistently gives one of the most detailed overviews of an airline at the start of that airline’s call.

Then of course, we had the United Airlines‘ call this week. Aside from the nice liquidity shot in the arm that Chase gave the airline — we were also excited that we had another example of “Tilton Triangulation” in this quarter’s call.

Yes, CEO Glenn Tilton was on the corporate speak warpath again, talking about triangulating foot prints or some such thing.

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Talk to you guys tomorrow.