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Old 04-28-2020 | 11:14 AM
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Itsajob
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Originally Posted by Thor
How well do you remember the last 2 dedicated cargo efforts by United?

Anyway, 89 airplanes to convert, how long will that take? And you want Bezos to pay for it all?
What's the yield on Amazon boxes and does Amazon need 89 airplanes in their operation?
Do you really want to play find the bottom basement yield with UPS and FedEx?
Do you really want to play find the pay scale bottom trying to compete with Mesa wages?

Maybe you heard that UAL's CAPEX faucet closed, completely, so the likelihood of this happening is about nil.
You’ve obviously seen this movie before too. The only way to make money in the ACMI market with our fleet is to sell the planes to Bezos or Atlas and let them convert them.