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Old 07-26-2008 | 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Sr. Barco
"Perseus has also agreed to serve as equity sponsor for Frontier's plan of reorganization, allowing Perseus to purchase 79.9% of the equity in the reorganized company for $100 million."


Does anyone else find that concerning? Does that mean Perseus will essentially own or control Frontier when the dust settles? Can anyone weigh in on that?

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Yes, it means that. It's the type of financing that you can't afford. Like borrowing more money from a loan shark than you know perfectly well you can't pay back.
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Old 07-26-2008 | 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by iahflyr
It also means the company is only worth approximately $125 million dollars (nearly half of what it was worth prior to entering bankruptcy). I think Frontier is a sinking ship. Those paycuts the pilots took will not help it out one bit. All it does is mean these pilots will have less money when Frontier does go out of business. It is very sad.
They have a great product.
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Old 07-26-2008 | 12:30 PM
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The only way Frontier will make it is if the people of Colorado decide to fly on Frontier even though SWA is offering a cheaper ticket (to most places). Most people will take the cheaper flight regardless, and now that some guy is on the picture box telling the people of Denver not to book with Frontier for the holidays because Frontier might not be around, it may be too late.

I, personally, think that Frontier has a superior product over SWA. I like the planes, the people, and bring back my friggin' bread sticks already!

I'm not SWA bashing- Y'all got this aviation biz figured out. Congrats for that.
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Old 07-26-2008 | 03:58 PM
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flew on them today. awesome product and the crew was friendly. also i overheard ppl talking about f9 and how much they love it. really do hope they pull through
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Old 07-26-2008 | 04:32 PM
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Come on F9, you can pull through!
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Old 07-26-2008 | 06:23 PM
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Can someone explain how this whole credit processer thing works. Seems UAL was having issues with them as well as of late.

Anyone know how that whole thing works in simple english? Does the company have to have a certain amount in reserve or are the fees outrageous?

Just curious.
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Old 07-26-2008 | 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 328dud e
Can someone explain how this whole credit processer thing works. Seems UAL was having issues with them as well as of late.

Anyone know how that whole thing works in simple english? Does the company have to have a certain amount in reserve or are the fees outrageous?

Just curious.



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In a nutshell, F9 doesnt charge your credit card, a credit processor does and sends the money to F9 minus a fee to do business. Well let's say F9 goes out of business tomorrow, and refuses to give a refund. All those customers start to dispute the charge on their CC's, hence the hold F9's credit processor put on them. If i remember correctly, they held 100% (!) of their revenue from tickets for i believe three monthes to place in the bank so if F9 does tank, they won't be screwed out of their piece of the pie. Make sense?

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Old 07-26-2008 | 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 328dude
Can someone explain how this whole credit processer thing works. Seems UAL was having issues with them as well as of late.

Anyone know how that whole thing works in simple english? Does the company have to have a certain amount in reserve or are the fees outrageous?

Just curious.
What issues were those?! They REDUCED the amount they hold back......extra 350 million bucks to UAL's liquidity.
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Old 07-26-2008 | 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Shrek
What issues were those?! They REDUCED the amount they hold back......extra 350 million bucks to UAL's liquidity.
Frontier had to enter Chapter 11 BECAUSE of the processors withholding 100% of it's revenue until a bank of X amount was reached. THATS a big issue to me!
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Old 07-27-2008 | 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by bluebravo
Frontier had to enter Chapter 11 BECAUSE of the processors withholding 100% of it's revenue until a bank of X amount was reached. THATS a big issue to me!
Blue........328dude was referring to UAL not F9.

Thread drift for sure, but he suggested that UAL was having troubles with their credit processor as well.

I am keenly aware that this was not the case in the F9 filing. It was a major cause.
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