Originally Posted by
RightSeatDude
At the risk of sounding too cynical... what makes you think any of the flying is profitable? XE lost what, $60 - 70 million last year, with Continental beating XE down for lower rates? It's going to be increasingly difficult to blame this all on branded set up costs.
The problem stems from the contract with CO is it was originally written. CO was to pay costs plus 10%. That immediately created a corporate culture where there was no incentive to keeping costs down.
Keepin' it real.
you think we are expensive because CAL says we are expensive? why would they say we were cheap?
this post on another forum shows a list of the different regionals and their costs per block hour associated with their contracts. it was in an aviation week magazine:
http://www.expressjetpilots.com/the-...onal-jets.html