Flight Options

[FR8DOG777]

Management by FEAR! I know it was on the tip of your tongue. It's the only way they know.

 

[cldsfr79]

NJ perhaps is looking to sale Gulfstreams in large numbers ...

Yeah that's all NJ needs. More of our planes being sold to a competitor so they can turn around, and take our customers by selling their product at bargain basement prices

Want NJ should do with their old planes is take them to the desert and chop them up.

 

[realityman]

Yeah that's all NJ needs. More of our planes being sold to a competitor so they can turn around, and take our customers by selling their product at bargain basement prices

Want NJ should do with their old planes is take them to the desert and chop them up.

Except they aren't NJ's planes. They belong to our clients. In order to chop them up, we'd have to buy them back. Once we own them, chopping them up would be a significant loss to NJ's instead of selling them or trading them in.

And we still lose the client to someone else who is offering a Gulfstream product (if that client is hell-bent on staying in a gulfstream).

 

[gret]

Except they aren't NJ's planes. They belong to our clients. In order to chop them up, we'd have to buy them back. Once we own them, chopping them up would be a significant loss to NJ's instead of selling them or trading them in.

And we still lose the client to someone else who is offering a Gulfstream product (if that client is hell-bent on staying in a gulfstream).

You're right on every count...NJ eventually does have to buy them back when the owner "puts" it at the end of the contract. The end result is the same...NJ isn't going to mothball the aircraft and will dump the aircraft as soon as possible.

 

[onetimer]

O great, another thread taken over by NJ!

 

[NJAowner]

My bet is that FO starts flying Gs. I do not think they will get the EMB-500. It is too close to the Citation X. FO has a good program going with its revamped Citations Xs. FO is trying very hard not to have too many fleet types. In the end it will actually have what NJ is trying to get too (but won't get to in the near future) -- just 4 types -- small and inexpensive (400XP/400XT), Phenom 300, Citation X and a G/Legacy. In my opinion, a fractional should not have more than 4 or 5 types -- then the inefficiencies start to kill them.

(For example to fly 8 +/- pax, does NJ really need the Hawker 800, Sovereign, X, G200 and DA-2000?)

 

[CALRepublic]

I'm going with an Embraer product, they're the least expensive product out there and Flt ops has a good relationship with them. Also Embraer is desperate for a launch Legay customer.

When is FLOPS suppose to announce "the big news"?

Hell now I'm curious

 

[gunfyter]

I vote Gulfstream ... see how many Gulfstream owners switch to FLOPS to stay in that product

 

[gutshotdraw]

I vote Gulfstream ... see how many Gulfstream owners switch to FLOPS to stay in that product

More than a few....fewer than a lot.

 

[Dingo221]

G4 s are my bet, but I might not be well informed.
What is coming after is what I want to know about!
What about a mid size?
The 500 nah, the 450 ? may be but in 2 or 3 years ! not so sure..