SWAPoolie
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Dizel8 said:Or maybe he just wanted to get out from under the thumb of UAL, after all, they are pretty good a whipsawing the feeders against each other and maybe, just maybe, he believed it possible that FlyI could stand on its own.
Who knows, had fuel not taken off, they may have been more successfull.
I worked there. The plan was predicated on $30/barrel fuel but that's not the whole part. The RJs cost per seat mile was predicted to be 11 cents. While that doesn't seem like much it is. It was 11 cents if the aircraft were full every day which had 15 plus flights to each destination sold only on the flyi website.
There was alot of arrogance involved and it led to the demise of the airline.