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May 29, 2008 at 5:43 am in reply to: Another U.S. casuality. #533239

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You seriously don’t like Go! and/or Mesa do you!?

Why should I or anybody else? The stock price is an excellent indicator of what the public thinks of his job/company performance. Go! is the single biggest money loser for Mesa and Jonathan Ornstein won’t shut it down most likely out of foolish pride. He use to be the President of our company years ago and was asked to not come back after he left. CO officers/managers have gone out of there way to not deal with him ever.

May 29, 2008 at 5:38 am in reply to: Kalitta Air 747 Written off after overrunning runway at Brussels! #533246

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So did something drastic happen after v1 that they decided safest to stay on the ground…

After V1 by definition you go flying. Thinking that it’s safer to stop after that point is foolish and leads to situations that end in something that looks like this Kalitta 747.

May 17, 2008 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Another U.S. casuality. #534827

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Mesa is gasping for air right now. Their stock is nearly worthless leaving their market capital at $15.35 Million. A whole airline worth $15M?

http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1211038057265&chddm=24633&q=NASDAQ:MESA&

Jonathan Ornstein has intentionally run his operations in a lot of cases at a significant loss trying to run other airlines out of business. So now that practice is really killing his airline as oil prices have climbed too quickly. Now his new great idea is to issue millions of new shares of company stock to try and raise money to buy them more time. Well, perhaps if he wasn’t the scourge of the airlines for so long he wouldn’t be in the position he’s in now. You can’t run an airline on future promises.

I don’t think that shutting down Air Midwest will really help them that much. The routes they operated with those aircraft were Government Essential Air Service program cities. Basically the government subsidizes the operational costs so airlines will offer service to small towns. So Ornstein shutdown a gov. subsidized operation to save money? How about shutting down Go! which has done nothing but cost Mesa Air Group Million$ and Million$ since they started that operation?

May 16, 2008 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Another U.S. casuality. #534884

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Mesa had their hand in Aloha going out of business so perhaps them losing a division of their company (albeit small) is a bit of karma?

April 27, 2008 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Pain At The Pump For Gulfstreams? #433220

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Not in my experience. It’s the common folk who are the loudest opponents to the small flucuations in fuel/food/etc. prices. The folks who are blasting around the sky in personal jets aren’t in as much touch with these changes.

April 27, 2008 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Pain At The Pump For Gulfstreams? #433222

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A G550 burns a little less than 3000 lbs. per hour at cruise. The tax increase would cost the operator $63 per hour more. Nothing that the owner of a G550 is going to be concerned about.

April 26, 2008 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Air to Air by CorsairBoss #514172

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Great pictures!

Is that R. Lee Ermey in the backseat?

April 25, 2008 at 3:32 am in reply to: Aloha Means Goodbye #538028

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If they can get past their loyalty to Boeing..

I didn’t know that Boeing made the A330 or A350?

http://investor.hawaiianairlines.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=82818&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1082294&highlight=

With the 717 really being a MD product is that a show of support for Boeing either? Strange loyalty.

April 19, 2008 at 2:21 am in reply to: AN EASY QUESTION ABOUT AIRLINERS FROM A WARBIRD NUT! #538654

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Google is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_lease

April 12, 2008 at 5:42 am in reply to: Frontier Airlines, domino effect. #539396

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WD, by Mesa does that include the GO! division in Hawaii? Seeing as Aloha blamed Go! for their demise, I was surprised to see only 6 pax on one of their CRJ’s the other day in Hawaii. Whereas 2 days later I flew on 2 Hawaiian 717’s, both of them had fewer than 5 empty seats.

Go! is a part of Mesa. Glad to hear that they only had 6 folks on their plane. Those island folks are pretty loyal to local companies and I have this feeling that Mesa’s involvement in the demise of Aloha isn’t going to help their local image.

April 11, 2008 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Frontier Airlines, domino effect. #539452

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Mesa Airlines if we’re lucky.

April 9, 2008 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Bristol – A view from the rear! #511210

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Great pictures. I like the Dash-8 that appears to be reflecting the approach lighting.

April 9, 2008 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Another US Airline gone #539656

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Yeah, the started up only a year ago or so. They made an inital splash with their $10/seat price but they quickly disappeared from anyone’s radar after that. It always appeared as if their business plan was originally invisioned by someone who never ran an airline and/or never actually flew on an airliner…ever.

April 6, 2008 at 12:28 am in reply to: Skybus Throws In The Towel #540411

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Do you happen to know when they will have gone from the fleet? The only information I have been able to find it’s that the fleet will dwindle to 68 by the year end.

I haven’t heard any final date for their departure.

April 5, 2008 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Skybus Throws In The Towel #540444

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NWA is in the process of getting rid of their DC-9’s.
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