Here's my dance video for today:

Air India's fleet is nearly 97% financed.
But wait, the US made jets in that fleet are not just financed, but financed by the ExIm bank ;-)

BTW, Top loss making routes for Air India are BOM-JFK and BOM-EWR.

Cheers
George

Funny how all that worked out. There's an article out now about how the the preclearance facility in the M.E. that we lobbied against is actually causing huge headaches for Etihad. It seems our CBP people are doing a typically crappy job and causing massive flight delays an operational problems... Less than 1% of the flights to LAX are on time... "Hi, I'm from The Government and I'm here to help!":eek:

George,

I'm not questioning if you are wrong or right on the top loss making routes for air India, but I'm pretty sure the real reason we pulled down was jet airways... How do we make that route work for us because I'd fly it happily until I was in diapers again.:eek:

My understanding is that Jet Airways pulled out of JFK. I don't know how air India is losing it's hide without competition.

Heyas Sink,

I can't intelligently answer those questions...

The approval/disapproval process has always been handled by my Drs/Surgeons, so I don't know how that works. They put in the request and it got approved is all I know. Even the relatively new technique they used for some surgery got approved within a week.

I don't go to a chiropractor, now or in the past, so no idea.

Rxs are handled by my local chain drugstore. I drop off the paper, they give me the meds. I had some goop in the past that I had to get from a formulary pharmacy (hah! try to find one of those these days), which is a pharmacy that blends custom stuff. Paid no problem at all w/ standard copayment.

But understand that I have (at the moment, at least) no ongoing medical concerns or med requirements. Other than intermittent,one off issues, I'm fairly low MX. I can't speak to issues with wives, kids, or long term chronic issues.

Nu

That was exactly the point.

• Air India is/was using dumping prices to maintain their "flagship" route at all costs.
• Ironically they even can't make money with subsidized loans for the planes on these routes.
• They can't even afford parts, so they cannibalize some of the aircraft they have.

Air India is losing money on routes with subsidized jets
Not only that but they chose to idle some of these subsidized jet for parts to keep the rest of the fleet flying.
That's a pretty strong indication on how "cheap" the acquisition of these jets is for Air India.

Clearly normal market forces aren't at play here.

If you want to dig:
Air india loses money on all but two flights

Cheers
George

I think he was referring to KimJong Un feeding his uncle to a pack of wild dogs.

Unless you can show some kind of bone tangle, they pay the chiro-prator $36 bucks a visit, up to 10 visits a year. Maybe more now, since it has been a while. $12.50 for drugs up from $10. Under normal circumstances you never get near the out of pocket.

Now that right there is funny!

Carl

A little off the topic...OK let's be honest there is no topic here.... I price checked several flights for some friends via Priceline, Cheaptickets.com etc and American is getting aggressive coming in lower in price than Delta and others on routes out of NYC, SFO and Las Vegas. This was not a scientific based however.

Watching what AA is doing taking delivery of many new airframes (including widebodies), adding routes, etc. it seems they are a force to be reckoned with. I think it is genius Delta is paying down debt which will allow them to easily afford the restoration raises for C2015 but a little concerned about their ability to compete airframe wise. Will replacing 767's with A330's allow Delta to compete with AA in ameaningful way?