Blueridger

Ahhhh, another oblivious post by someone so ignorant that it baffles us others.
Just a little lesson for ya, try and keep up: furloughs have never come around because of pilots being overly compensated for their labor. Furloughs are typically a result of a steep economic downturn resulting in a rapid drop in demand of services, or, they occur due to the ineptitude of upper management and their ridiculous ambitions and poor accounting practices.
Get it???
So before you get your head shoved into an actively flushing toilet for saying that furloughed UAL, DAL, CAL, or USair lost their jobs because they were being paid too much, take a second and realize that your astoundingly asinine comment should be quickly retracted lest your stupidity be flaunted on these message boards any more than is currently the case.

On a second note, please enroll yourself in the nearest ESL class as your english skills are absolutely horrendous. A 5 year old would put your written skills to shame.....

F9niner

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CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Virgin America Inc. is looking to add up to 10 more aircraft next year in a sign that the loss-making carrier's business model may be gaining traction.
The airline has run up substantial losses since launching a low-cost, high service model from its San Francisco base in 2007, but it turned profitable during the summer and is targeting a full-year operating surplus in 2010.
Virgin America, like other carriers, had trimmed expansion plans amid the sharp decline in passenger traffic, and deferred some of the new Airbus A320s due to boost its existing fleet of 38 aircraft.
However, spokeswoman Abby Lunardini confirmed industry speculation that it was back in the market to boost capacity, despite widespread uncertainty about the strength of any recovery in demand and pricing power. "We're out in the market actively pursuing new aircraft for next year - perhaps as many as 10 additional aircraft," she said.
Virgin America, which is still embroiled in controversy over its ownership, reported a net loss of $15.8 million in the three months to June 30, compared with a $64.4 million deficit a year earlier. It lost $40.3 million in the first quarter. But revenue rose by 47% from the prior year's quarter to $135.9 million and average costs fell sharply.
The carrier is the creation of U.K. entrepreneur Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group owns 25% of the airline. Its launch was delayed by almost two years after a delay in securing regulatory approval linked to its ownership structure. To comply with U.S. law, 75% of the voting stock must be held by U.S. citizens.
Washington-based Alaska Airlines Inc. (ALK), which competes with Virgin America on West Coast routes, has taken up the industry baton in calling the airline's legality into question after U.S. investors opted to trigger a sale clause.
Virgin America has said it complies with the law and that the U.S. Transportation Department is aware of its potential changes. The airline has been seeking alternative investors after two private equity groups that provided the initial capital exercised options to sell their stakes earlier this year.
A Transportation Department spokesman has said it continues to review the protests from Alaska and others, as well as calls for a public hearing into Virgin America's ownership status.

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...are you a German by any chance? Mean no disrespect whatsoever, just the way you capitilize the words totally out of the blue and the grammar... Me thinks Deutsch? Ja?

Iflyforcash

[quote=Blueridger;684442]Ahhhh, another oblivious post by someone so ignorant that it baffles us others.
Just a little lesson for ya, try and keep up: furloughs have never come around because of pilots being overly compensated for their labor. Furloughs are typically a result of a steep economic downturn resulting in a rapid drop in demand of services, or, they occur due to the ineptitude of upper management and their ridiculous ambitions and poor accounting practices.
Get it???

but you are missing the point, when you get paid 325.00 in hour to flight an airplane there is not much room for financial recovery on tough times, and yes I admited I do need more inglish classes I guess when I speak 4 other languages I have a hard time to keep up , how many do you speak ?

are you mad because you flight a little jet now? or even worse
If may I ask are one of the furlough guys from one of those legacy airlines?
If you are not, just keep you thoughts to your self.

Flying Boxes

yes I admited I do need more inglish classes I guess when I speak 4 other languages I have a hard time to keep up , how many do you speak ?

He speaks the only language he needs too!

Rama

I hope you don't count English as a language you can speak.

Equinox

iflyfor cash: you ingorant s***...(a 70's reference).
I got furloughed last year, and not because I made 33.00 and hour as a new hire. Rather because mgmt brought us in to just fly the summer schedule at United, after the beating they took in 07. And because they knew they were going to retire the 737s long before the fuel price spike last year. And because I was a sap for believing there may be a future there, after the alleged mgmt. team and alpa outsourced over half their flying.

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Do you have a small jet syndrome? I noticed that as soon as someone disagrees with your "message of hope" you bring up your "little jet" comment?

In a previous thread you berated me for trying to encourage someone who was new to aviation. Why? Well because this industry sucks... I see your point there... Yet here you blame the pilots' "high" wages for the downturn in this industry? So which is it???

I too speak several languages and won't ever master the English language 100% as it's not my native tongue. It's good to keep trying though and speaking a few other languages doesn't give you the right to butcher the only one you actually need for this profession.

You remind me of this one pilot we used to have at a previous airline. He was from the Middle East and the vast majority of people struggled with his heavy accent; in fact ATC would routinely ask him to repeat what he'd just said so his nickname became "say again."

He had an attitude, hated this country and would share his resentment ad nauseam with the rest of us.

He felt that Americans were simply too stupid to understand him, it couldn't possibly be his fault.

(Disclaimer - I also knew other pilots from that region who were good guys, loved our freedoms and tried their best to become good citizens - in fact, he was the exception to the rule)

Anyways, one day he came into the maintenance shop and said something to one of the ladies there. He was loud, animated and talked really fast. She listened patiently and said "Hon, I'm really sorry but I'm not sure what you just said, would you please repeat it?" That's when he got really mad and with a great deal of disgust in his voice yelled out "Woman! I speak five languages and you only speak one! - why can't you understand me!?!?!?

The lady who was a sweetheart and a true Southern Belle replied in her sweet North Carolina accent "Sugar pie - if English is one of the five then no, you only speak four!" Priceless!

SkiBum112

Geee...wonder what company that could have been lol

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