Hello earthlings! It has been one hell of a day here at the PlaneBusiness Worldwide Headquarters. American Airlines’ flight attendants voted down their TA this weekend, management at American issued its JCBA proposal to the pilots at the airline earlier today (with a twist), we have three in-depth earnings reports this week on SkyWest, Republic Holdings and Allegiant Travel, a comprehensive book review of Ted and Dan Reed’s new book on the American Airlines/US Airways merger, and we get you up to speed with what we were doing at Duke last week with the Travelport Ignite event, and what we were doing the week before when we visited with the folks at Delta Air Lines.  

All this and much, much, more, including the details on the Virgin America IPO.

It is one intense issue. That’s all I can say.

PlaneBusiness Banter subscribers can access the issue here.