hahah funny man over here ha? Seriously though I gotta be careful what I say on here now

 

No, I don't.

If people are worried about our future after 2 FREAKING QUARTERS they need a history lesson. Ever heard of a company called Southwest Airlines? You must have Toilet, they're a Texas company. They lost money for 2 YEARS before turning their first profit. So call me crazy for sitting back and being patient while giving the business plan some time to work. And for the record, the company planned to lose money for 3 years on the branded stuff before becoming profitable. The loads and passenger response have been better than expected. Now the issue is getting fuel costs under control and raising the yield. (you know what that is, right?)

I'm not sure how you can call this "one of the most profitable times in history". You must have been under a rock during the mid-90s. Tell me this: why can the airlines make money with oil averaging $58 a barrel this year but when it was averaging $23 a barrel they were losing their shirts?

My point was there was no such thing as an "insane" stock price. You can call it insane, I'll call it undervalued or depressed.

You just reiterated my point, which was that INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS and ANALYSTS are what influence the stock price. I assume thats who you are referring to when you say "a bunch of people with WAY more experience and credentials" (I fixed your spelling, you can thank me later).

Once again, you show what a REAL class act you are Toilet. Keep it up, you definitely help your credibility when you belittle others. If you read a bunch of anger and emotion into my post, then that's your problem, not mine. I just call 'em like I see 'em.

I guess you wouldn't have had an issue if I had responded to the original post "yep, you're right, we're all doomed. I'm glad you can see that from your vantage point outside the company with no real knowledge of whats going on behind the scenes". Toilet, I realize that you have your finger on the pulse of every airline out there ever, but no one is saying that there aren't issues here or at EVERY OTHER COMPANY OUT THERE. My post was aimed at quieting the "sky is falling at XJT", "they have one foot in the grave" tone the original poster had. He asked questions, a person on the inside answered them and here you come poking into it. Believe it or not Toilet, NO ONE ASKED YOU. If beech2jet has an issue with the way I addressed his post then I would hope he or she is adult enough to approach me with that problem. I don't think he or she needs you to jump into the fray for them. Remember when you were an eager CFI who couldn't figure out how to navigate direct-to a radial/DME fix with a $10,000 GPS unit ready to come to XJT, backpack in hand, for a "walk in" interview? If you had asked these questions, I would have answered them the same way for you. And I wouldn't have apologized if it made you cry either.

Erm...I think I did that in the last paragraph of my response to the original post. Maybe you should go back and read it.


If it came down to it and that was the last resort for a management that has exhausted all other options and they could prove to me that only way to save the company was for labor to take a hit to their QOL then I might consider it. But I, nor should you, say without qualification that I would take a pay cut or other impact on my QOL to save my company. Mesa is losing money faster than we are, should those guys sacrifice pay to save their company? I guess I am of the mentality that I should not subsidize stupidity in the management suite. Fortunately, that doesn't seem to be a problem with the current XJT.

 

well put and i understand the frustration in talking with the people who are believing Expressjet is "one foot in the grave" but your wasting your time and raising your blood pressure. As soon as you talk some sense into one person there will be another poster "i think Expressjet will be in Ch. 11 in a year." There are going to be the haters and the fear mongerers but you just have to let them be in their own little world. There are people that are a pain trying to talk to about expressjet because of their "sincere concern" (or dislike of our company).

So our training center has been scaled back, we have a healthy supply of pilots, branded has had excellent loads these past couple of weeks, and plenty of block hours to fly. Could management be gunning for a first quarter profit next year? or 4th quarter this year? Word around here is that the chances are good. Ream and Co. have supposedly hinted towards this being their goal.

 

Funny thing is, you could tweak that post just a little bit and that's how a lot of guys at RAH would feel whenever we hear some XJTer's pipe up about our company...