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Old 04-29-2014 | 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Lobaeux
Listening to the webcast now. Sounds very positive going forward.

Hiring to continue, growth increasing passing 2015.

Four more aircraft this year, 11 next year. (Ben says "at least 11 next year")

On hand cash to drive growth (a lot of cash!).

Low-cost marketing to continue (we won't sponsor sports teams, tv commercials, putting Spirit's names on arenas, etc.)

Virgin moving to Love Field won't affect Spirit at all.

Spirit to possibly take on debt to purchase aircraft vs. lease.

Infrastructure sufficient for growth, scalable to a growing airline.

Load factor around 87%, flying 13 hours a day!

No Venezuela flying any time soon (would be a big market out of FLL).

"140-ish airplanes, 30-40 of them A321s in 2021" - Ben Baldanza.
Only 4 more aircraft this year? Still showing aprox 9 more with 7 alone in Q4?