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10-18-2007 | 12:54 PM

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ToiletDuck

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yeah $280.000.000.00 in the bank, we are def feeling the crunch

$328.800.000 per year in aircraft leasing alone. Not to mention all the departmental budgets and payrolls. Makes that $280 mil shrink.

10-18-2007 | 12:55 PM

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What's up with Mesa bidding to take over your flying for CAL? Kellner said that he's going to shed TWO big suppliers shortly. Is XJT one of them?

10-18-2007 | 12:58 PM

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Can the 145 be ferry-permitted for that trip? I'm sure it can't be ETOPS certified...how would they get the birds there anyway - Australia is so far over water on all sides??

Worst case they could be island hopped all the way through Alaska, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Phillipines, and New Guinea. You don't think they've gotten some western hemisphere RJ's down there some how already?

10-18-2007 | 01:08 PM

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Chautauqua has a couple that use to be in Europe. I've wondered how they managed to get them here as well.

10-18-2007 | 01:08 PM

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$328.800.000 per year in aircraft leasing alone. Not to mention all the departmental budgets and payrolls. Makes that $280 mil shrink.

Yeah but CAL still pays for roughly 75% of all our costs plus 5%-10%. They used to pay for everything plus 10%. Since they set 69 airplanes free and won an arbitration over the margins we were charging we aren't getting what we used to but it's still alot.

Just adding some prospective for you.

10-18-2007 | 01:10 PM

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Yeah that's what I figured...and it sounds expensive enough to be prohibitive...

10-18-2007 | 01:26 PM

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From: Boeing Hearing and Ergonomics Lab Rat, Night Shift

...US airlines have operated in Australia before:

America West operated 3 737s down under for a while
during the pilot's dispute

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0046173/M/

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10-18-2007 | 01:52 PM

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What's up with Mesa bidding to take over your flying for CAL? Kellner said that he's going to shed TWO big suppliers shortly. Is XJT one of them?

hahhaah MESA will never fly , well most likely never fly for CAL, for many reasons, and I am curious to listen to our CONF call on Monday, who knows maybe CAL will cancel the CPA all together and just do a PRO-RATE deal, which would be a good thing, but even though CAL is posting huge profits the way Larry Kellner is running things over there will catch up to him eventually, you can only provide a great product on a shoe-string budget for so long, he is doing a great job of destroying everything that Gordon Bethune created.