helped reinvigorate the process and bring it to a successful conclusion.

We believe we made a fair and equitable offer to bring the negotiation process to a successful conclusion, especially in an airline industry environment that is experiencing massive concessionary agreements. Over the next 30 days, we remain committed to continuing to work with the IBT.

The outcome here is not assured, and so I think one must view it as a process that is an important step forward, and I think many, many important and difficult steps remain,

It was the environmental groups that helped bring this about ? for altruistic reasons, of course ? but the result is that a lot of breadwinners are going to be out of work.

A successful product may not be scalable; a successful process always is

We'd all like to bring them to a conclusion sooner rather than later, ... But precisely when we're going to be able to do that is anybody's guess.