Originally Posted by CardboardCutout (Post 3262619)

IMS, the other big charter deal was going to be for Condor, flying various German cities to various US vacationy type spots.

Originally Posted by wjcandee (Post 3262539)

Cujo, you were handling the naysayer very well, so I didn't get involved in poking at him. But the fact is that the company busted its butt to find profitable flying while keeping people employed. Military is at the whim of the military, and the vacation charters were questionable for some time. However, with like every American family wanting to travel right now, and the ability to go to a wide variety of international destinations severely constrained, the Hawaii Charters and such should come screaming back now. That was certainly what everybody was hoping for, and it seems to be the case. As to the other big planned Charter route, I don't know what it was, so I don't know whether it was domestic or International to a country that isn't well vaccinated at the moment. Other kinds of flying, like incentive Charters, should also come back significantly in the late summer and fall. Trade shows and such are also picking up, so that aspect of business travel, as many of us expected, is going to come back simply because business is best conducted in person. People can argue about that, but the moment a competitor seals a big deal because its sales people spent time with the client in person, everybody else will fall in line and start doing it again.

looking at things now, without being jingoistic, we are very lucky to live in this country. It's absolutely shocking how many bureaucrat-run developed countries are still sitting and waiting for a strong vaccine supply, not to mention the developing ones. Just amazing that Japan is the mess that it is, but the structure and operation of their Healthcare System, and the manner in which their government operates, explains a lot. Aggressive entrepreneurship by the US govt, in the face of a lot of naysayers, turned out to be just brilliant. And the idea of financing three different types of vaccines, with two manufacturers taking a shot at each one, is the reason that we got one kind that turned out to work very well. Unlikely that any other country would have supported that.

Originally Posted by wjcandee (Post 3262642)

Oh, well. Gonna be a while before that would be needed, I suspect.

Originally Posted by Happy Hooligan (Post 3275072)

Did they offer you a class date? or any other info you can share?
Sorry you won't be joining us! I know that you were waiting patiently.
Good luck in your other adventure

Originally Posted by ObadiahDogberry (Post 3275128)

Not a class date, but wanted to know if I was still interested and available. Disappointed in some ways. I am excited about where I am going now, and think it will potentially be a pretty good opportunity. But I know a few guys over at Omni, and they enjoy it, and I have spent over a year hoping for the call. Like I said, if the call had come three weeks earlier, I would have said yes and been overjoyed.

Originally Posted by ObadiahDogberry (Post 3275030)

FYI, calls are going out to guys in the pool. Interviewed 14 months ago and got a phone call today. Unfortunately the call came about three weeks too late for me, I am off in a different direction now.