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Inside DEENA
Not trying to shoot down the good feelings here, but all the things people around here talk about that MUST add up to a longer contract and new/more flying cost very little to AWAC. Leather seats? A: they had to be replaced anyway and B: if Airways decided that the seats were too ratty and said 'do this or we reduce your flying because the product stinks', guess what they are going to do.
CAT II? Really very little in real dollars for the company, since we all have to go to the sim every year anyway. What's an extra hour or two for two pilots really cost? Not as much as one might think.
iPads? At $6000 per station/$12,000 per aircraft times 71 airframes, that only adds up to $852,000. AWAC earns more than that in 1 week, post operational profit at that!
The website? Contracted out to the local community college.
Don't be fooled by cost numbers that when compared to one's personal financial $'s, are enormous, but when presented against the numbers in a multi-million dollar corporation are a drop in the bucket.
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Leather seats? I would be willing to bet that directive came straight from Airways as a not so subtle suggestion to replace these things...now. It wasn't that long ago that they basically did the same thing to Mesa.
The paint situation is becoming very interesting. The majority of our airplanes look like absolute crap. If the new American doesn't care enough to want to paint these things, what does that tell you? It tells me that they don't want to spend the money on a short term solution. I guess time will tell though.