Originally Posted by keenster (Post 805024)

93% of nothing is nothing. All depends on the ticket price. Would be nice to know which flights make money and which flights loose money. If a 5 buck increase runs a customer off to another airline, what the heck. Seems as if it does not matter how good you are or how nice you treat the pax, it's all about price. That is why I hate branding ourselves with the regionals that could care less and give us a bad name. SWA, Airtran,Spriit, etc hold 100% of their destiny in their hands and do not have a regional out there doing a crappy job for them. Show me the money there. What do we make off the regionals????

Originally Posted by keenster (Post 805062)

Now how could that happen?????? Seems like our charter operation
is going down hill at a rapid rate. MAC charters are in the toilet compared to what we used to do. Can anyone shed some light on this???:eek:

Originally Posted by keenster (Post 805102)

From a purely technical perspective, the next leg up could carry the price of crude up to the $100 a barrel area before it encounters significant overhead resistance: That price level will once again push us into the Depression danger zone. :eek:

Originally Posted by JobHopper (Post 805025)

The NBA wants to play ball in Europe over the summer. The charter would run similar to NWA's Asia operation: DH over, fly, DH back.

The short call question is in regards to the legalities of consecutive short call assignments. Let's say you are on SC today until 10 PM. At 3 PM skeds assigns you another SC tomorrow AM. You are not released; you must still sit out SC until 10 PM. Can you be considered legally rested when you are technically on duty, even though they didn't use you? Questions are being raised about this practice.

Originally Posted by 1234 (Post 805154)

I believe that the charter deal is not for NBA but instead a certain rock band that will be on tour. The trips will be built with dh on each side and put in the bid package however it will be management pilots that actually fly the trips. Pilots that get awarded the trips will be paid for them with no responsibility for recovery. (At least this is what I was told from a reliable source)

I don't know about the short call.

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 805158)

An Irish rock band?

Originally Posted by dalad (Post 805091)

Thanks Denny, I found it after about a 30 minute Easter Egg hunt on the Flight Ops website. Lots of good info there but sometimes hard to find!

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 805059)

One of the NBA charter coordinators told me that we lost the European NBA charters to American.