Originally Posted by Cruise

Your 'Colgan victory' statement is great for sound bites.....but it isn't entirely accurate. Of course mgmt is going to show losses in the books for the past year. You think it's cheap, or easy, to bring on an entirely new fleet of aircraft and everything associated w/ maintaining, training, etc... said a/c? Yes, if you're using a bottom-line type of metric, than yes, we've lost money. However, if you stop your short-sighted line of thinking, and look long term, we're going to be very profitable....and those losses will certainly become gains. Much more so than those clunker CR2's you guys are flying around. The Q is much more fuel efficient than an RJ and moves 50% more people at similar performance on shorter stage lengths.