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[h25b]

Now look where it got them. Negotiating for a good contract in good times is one thing; negotiating for a contract that allows your company to continue operating during bad times is entirely different.

Good to see someone who actually knows that airlines are a business. Not some exclusive club set up to let pilots fly and get paid for it.

Should ACA (FLYi) stand up against foreign ownership of airlines and not allow RB to purchase the cert? They did well standing up against Mesa and the hostil takeover attempt there.

Yep, they did a good job. I guess it's better to proceed with an idiot, undercapitalized business model that was doomed to failure from the beginning. From reading this board you'd conclude that we have about 100 pilots that hold Harvard MBA's..

Of course, FlyI is probably being run by at least one Ivy League MBA that conjured up this idea to begin with. :erm:

 

[acaTerry]

Ah, nevermind.

 

["Luke"]

I was trying to be sarcastic with my last post. I just have a bad feeling about letting foreigners manipulate the airline industry any more than they already are. I respect RB, but…..

As for ACA doing their own thing; You don’t get anywhere if you don’t take chances.

It’s just too bad Mesa is doing so well right now, it kind of rubs salt in the wound.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/indu...hoo.com/ap/051127/regional_airlines.html?.v=2

 

[Marko Ramius]

Ramius,

Your opinion that ACA management had to go is valid, however, it is akin to an abused child and his/her parents.... it is just hard to get rid of the parents because they are the parents...

Tom and Kerry wouldn't get rid of thier baby.....they'd rather kill it...

Rez,

You're probably right as to the reasons why, it's just another one of those things that we pilots need to remember for the next 'unique' 'unexpected' or 'unprecedented' occurennce in our careers. On another note, unrelated to what went on with Indy, when did Eddie Acker leave ACA and what were his reasons?

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Rez,. On another note, unrelated to what went on with Indy, when did Eddie Acker leave ACA and what were his reasons?

I don't have that information. He is on the BOD. I hear he is older than dirt.... Many know that Ackner was involved in Braniff, Air Florida and Pan Am.

A Senior pilot kept believing Ed whould save Indy....

Indy has days or just a couple of weeks left....


Here is Eddie A's profile... from the FLYI website....

C. Edward Acker
Director

Mr. Acker is a co-founder of the company, and is considered one of the most famous figures in the history of commercial aviation. He has more than four decades’ experience as a chief executive, and has earned a place among the biggest and most colorful names in the airline business.

He served as the Chairman of Pan American World Airways, Inc., from 1981-88, the Chairman of Air Florida, Inc., from 1977-81 and the President of Braniff Airways from 1970-1975 (starting as Executive Vice President in 1965).

In October 1991 he oversaw the creation of Atlantic Coast Airlines, and served as Chief Executive Officer until 1996.

Mr. Acker is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Texas