Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
03-30-2012 | 09:14 AM
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If it is agreed to before the compleation of Section6, yes we have to vote. If it is a LOA after the fact, by policy manual definition, they do not have to send it to MEMRAT.
03-30-2012 | 09:16 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
So, my wife bought lottery tickets. Since our paycheck no longer allows a Cadillac a month, or six months for that matter, what would you guys blow a few hundred million on?
Nominations:
or perhaps
or
I'm kinda thinking all three, since two of the three could be leased back and used as a self supporting tax write off. The airplane is a business necessity ... otherwise how could you check on your boat? None would be financially irresponsible since none are really going to drop in value.
Frankly, I don't get why more buyers don't go for an older business jet. The performance, dollar for dollar, is much higher and the parts are cheap. These things don't fly often, so who cares what the fuel burn is when the maintenance & insurance on a new light jet can set you back $300,000 a year anyway.
Nominations:
or perhaps
or
I'm kinda thinking all three, since two of the three could be leased back and used as a self supporting tax write off. The airplane is a business necessity ... otherwise how could you check on your boat? None would be financially irresponsible since none are really going to drop in value.
Frankly, I don't get why more buyers don't go for an older business jet. The performance, dollar for dollar, is much higher and the parts are cheap. These things don't fly often, so who cares what the fuel burn is when the maintenance & insurance on a new light jet can set you back $300,000 a year anyway.
03-30-2012 | 09:23 AM
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From: window seat
Just always remember:
What makes the RASM or the CASM matters not. A MD90 could be a 757 replacement, a Next Gen CRj900 could replace a 757. A 737-900 could replace a 757. They all can attach to a jetway and fly 1,000 miles at around Mach .79. (The CRj actually does the profile better than the Douglas product, hey, 50 years changed the way they build wings)
Gloopy, you say they "suck at math." Not really. They suck at forecasting markets five years into the future when an airplane acquisition is really a 15 to 20 year look see. They also tend to screw up and make deals that looked good at the time, but which fade when the variables change.
RASM-CASM=Operating profit
What makes the RASM or the CASM matters not. A MD90 could be a 757 replacement, a Next Gen CRj900 could replace a 757. A 737-900 could replace a 757. They all can attach to a jetway and fly 1,000 miles at around Mach .79. (The CRj actually does the profile better than the Douglas product, hey, 50 years changed the way they build wings)
Gloopy, you say they "suck at math." Not really. They suck at forecasting markets five years into the future when an airplane acquisition is really a 15 to 20 year look see. They also tend to screw up and make deals that looked good at the time, but which fade when the variables change.
I think they are making the same mistake again now with excessive "capacity discipline" while the LCC's collectively have a gigantic order book for growth. Something will have to give there eventually. I also wonder how kindly the legacies will take to LCC's and SWA continuing to poach new market share. I know the sleeping giant will be awakened as soon as they start to widebody flying over the pond, but will it really take that long to generate a massive backlash?
03-30-2012 | 09:27 AM
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I think I would find me a couple really nice beavers, and attach a turbine engine to one of them.
03-30-2012 | 09:36 AM
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A week of vacation (21hrs) is 39 RAW points.
03-30-2012 | 09:37 AM
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Excuse me. I own you. Or will. You shall now your head when typing a post in my general direction. Was your head down? did you say Oh Captain My Captain?
I'll buy this airline by its own assets or something. I will give you a gift, I will say RJs.
Now that I own this airline you may wonder, does FTB want to be a master that is loved or feared?
Both.
I want you to fear how much you love me.
I'll buy this airline by its own assets or something. I will give you a gift, I will say RJs.
Now that I own this airline you may wonder, does FTB want to be a master that is loved or feared?
Both.
I want you to fear how much you love me.
You will be a "firm, but fair master" and even though you are a doctor, you are not a licensed physician. And, if Chakka meat was the secret ingredient on iron chef, how would Bobby Flay serve it?
03-30-2012 | 09:37 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
03-30-2012 | 09:40 AM
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03-30-2012 | 09:44 AM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Nope ... but it does have a continuously variable normally aspirated intake system that can be seen on the left side of the mechanism. The dead give away is that the things that look like plug wires, are plug wires. The other dead give away is the size of the drive pulleys.
03-30-2012 | 09:48 AM
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From: 777B
So, my wife bought lottery tickets. Since our paycheck no longer allows a Cadillac a month, or six months for that matter, what would you guys blow a few hundred million on?
Nominations:
or perhaps
or
I'm kinda thinking all three, since two of the three could be leased back and used as a self supporting tax write off. The airplane is a business necessity ... otherwise how could you check on your boat? None would be financially irresponsible since none are really going to drop in value.
Frankly, I don't get why more buyers don't go for an older business jet. The performance, dollar for dollar, is much higher and the parts are cheap. These things don't fly often, so who cares what the fuel burn is when the maintenance & insurance on a new light jet can set you back $300,000 a year anyway.
Nominations:
or perhaps
or
I'm kinda thinking all three, since two of the three could be leased back and used as a self supporting tax write off. The airplane is a business necessity ... otherwise how could you check on your boat? None would be financially irresponsible since none are really going to drop in value.
Frankly, I don't get why more buyers don't go for an older business jet. The performance, dollar for dollar, is much higher and the parts are cheap. These things don't fly often, so who cares what the fuel burn is when the maintenance & insurance on a new light jet can set you back $300,000 a year anyway.
If I won $450M +/-, uncle sugar gets a chunk...
10% tithe
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