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Old 10-04-2008 | 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by ArcticDog
Could you please elaborate on this? Who, or what, is Mokulele? Who is Bedford and why does he want to get his foot in the door with Alaska?
Bedford (Big Poppa as he is known in Indy) runs the company. Mokulele is a company looking to grow its business. Bedford is looking to line his and the share holders pockets while getting his furloughed employees off the streets. This means putting airplanes to work vs parking them.

At last count RAH will have 7 remaining planes that were allocated to go to Frontier. This of course after the highly emotionally charged battle with picking up work for 10 of the aircraft with Midwest Connect. The reason no one is getting called back is because we are still 14 (i think) aircraft short with the closing of our CVG base and release of our 135's.

The quick math. 17 aircraft parked + 14 sold. He picked up work for 10 and still have 7 to place with enough flight crews for 31. It will probably be a while before we get our pilots back to work.

Alaska would be a nice code share for us to pick up for feed. Unfortunately this will put Alaska fat by some crews. That is not really an area of Big Poppa's concern nor should it be. His concern should be the financial strength of RAH.
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