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Old 08-21-2010 | 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by ToiletDuck
Fuel spiking over $100 a barrel and getting hit hard by the credit card processing have always been pointed at as the key issues.
Pointed to by Frontier management. That's easier that admitting that you totally mucked up the Lynx fiasco that cost you 90 million. Had the Q400 simply been put on the F9 certificate, the aircraft would have been generating revenue a full year sooner (at a minimum) with a fraction of the startup costs and a fraction of the operating costs.

The Lynx debacle left them cash poor. Had they had that cash they could have weathered the oil spike and would not have been vulnerable to the credit card processor.
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