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Old 01-24-2011, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot View Post
and fuel cost concerns for 2011.

Fuel Cost Concerns
So raise ticket prices a buck or two, and/or increase ancellary fees and/or progressively migrate away from ever less necessary virtual travel agency clearing houses and insource the selling of more product. In addition to all that, which we appear to be doing, we will continue to see a YOY shift away from insanely high CASM RJ's as well as the agressive parking of gas wasting 9's and significantly lower debt service payments.

We may see increased debt service payments WRT newer narrowbody aircraft later (or sooner?) but in those cases the cost of the fuel savings will more than eclpise the cost of that particular line item debt as fuel continues to soar and the cost of debt continues to remain rediculously low compared to where it should be. Add in more "stimulus" scams at home and abroad as well as overt and hidden subsidies from aircraft manufacturers and it will be a good time to modernize the fleet to realize significant cost savings.
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