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Old March 7th, 2008, 22:12   #130
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Default Re: Expressjet offering COLAs (voluntary furloughs) to pilot

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Originally Posted by meritflyer View Post
Velo and Co.,

The facts stand, even with oil at $105, XJT's branded operation as a stand alone entity, needs 35 people on board to make a profit. The point was reiterated by Jim Ream and Fred Cromer at the Raymond James conference and again recently on an all pilot conference call.
Yes, the point is getting 35 people on board...consistently on all routes, not one or two. Thats a 70% load factor across the whole operation. You guys going to be able to attain that with fuel prices rising everyday and not raising ticket prices? Kool Aide is all I gotz to say...

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Originally Posted by PCL_128 View Post
I've met 777forever. Seemed like a nice humble guy to me. Certainly not someone that needs to "get over himself."

Could someone please remind me why everyone is arguing in this thread? ExpressJet isn't furloughing people. That's a good thing. Let's congratulate them and stop the bickering for once.
Thanks PCL, don't worry about Merit though. Everytime he gets offended he throws personal attacks at me like im gunna lose sleep over it. Guess thats his way of raising his self-esteem. Many saw him attack DE727 for saying he makes 300k and looked like a fool.
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