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01-07-2009 | 06:01 PM

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Purpleanga

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It's just amazing the attitudes in this thread. If this was a thread about Skywest or Horizon or something there would be congratulations for the company and well wishes of guys coming back from furlough. Instead it's met with disbelief and disappointment. What is it about Mesa that sucks so much?

01-07-2009 | 06:03 PM

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From: NOYDB

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Originally Posted by Purpleanga

Jerry Ornstein and his band of merry men.

01-07-2009 | 06:08 PM

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From: EMB145

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Originally Posted by DENpilot

Also, with the displacement run, I have heard from a source in the recruiting dept. they are thinking of recalling upwards of 20 furloughs for an ERJ/dash class.

CP said we are loosing 5-8 ERJ's and closing CVG
and since the ERJ is staffed like OJ likes(less then needed) and with PBS + the loss of those birds does not mesh with bringing people back.
Just dont get your hopes up.

01-07-2009 | 06:23 PM

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I've seen this coming since it came out that these bonds were due.

Lots of disappointed Mesa bashers out there tonight.

01-07-2009 | 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DENpilot

Actually, I believe in the paperwork I received as a shareholder, it said that in the terms of the bonds, the company is allowed to issue stock in lieu of cash. It also says it in the DEF14A filing on November 22.

Keep in mind, that this is also based on the bondholders exercising their right to sell it back to the company.

True, they can pay with stock. However...

A reasonable stock issue is one thing, but issuing TEN times the amount of your stock currently on the street, which is valued in pennies, sounds outright fraudulent.

If I were the bondholder, I don't think I'd accept money printed by JO...

01-07-2009 | 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Lowlevel

The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 4200 employees and was awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 1992 and 2005. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.

I guess someone hid the fact that Freedom Airlines is a Mesa Company when ATW magazine was looking for a Regional of the Year (2005).

That's why I chuckle a little bit every time I see one of those stupid "Regional Airline of the Year" stickers on the side of a Shupublicah airplane. It's like the Grammy of industry awards. They'll give those things to anyone

01-07-2009 | 07:04 PM

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Cactusone

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Originally Posted by OscarOscar

SEC Filing on November 24th. You are correct and at ~$.25/share it's going to take 378M shares to pay the bondholders.

OO.

The quote "not worth the paper it's printed on" comes to mind since copies at Staples cost $.30 a page.

01-08-2009 | 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by H46Bubba

Jerry Ornstein and his band of merry men.

Is this a Freudian slip or a play on words?

01-08-2009 | 12:05 PM

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From: CRJ FO

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Originally Posted by gtechpilot

Ok, they have 75 million shares out now - they are planning on issuing 825 million new shares - how would this not devalue the stock to around $.04 per share?

I tried to cut and paste the entire table published in the SEC filing, but at $.10/share JOe is going to need more than the 900M shares. However, the bondholders may not even demand payment if it means accepting the shares. Either way JOe wins.

eP.

01-08-2009 | 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

The bottom line is that they still have to have investors to buy these worthless stocks. I seriously doubt that they'll find enough capital with the disclosures he has to include. Even with another public offering, if one comes, he'll have to generate a ton of capital to generate any capitalized position to secure, well........anything. Credit, equipment, flying, etc.

Good things happen to good people and JO is NOT good people.