New era for USA Jet

[Say Again Over]

Niche markets, low utilization on paid for airplanes that don't have to fly more than 2-4 hours a day to make money.

Enjoy the Rum and great Dominican cigars, you're lucky!

 

[tathepilot]

Maybe one day I can throw my pager into Belleville Lake

Belleville lake is Awesome!!!!

 

[aerobat]

Good luck with it! Going to be interesting this summer as you read in the papers how families are staying home instead of taking vacations. Might end up with some empty seats since those rfancy esorts arent expecting as many tourists.

 

[cherry20's]

There will be some MD-80's for sale real soon in Dallas.

Good luck and congrats guys.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

USA Jet has an ABQ base, with two guys commuting there out of PHX.

cliff
YIP

 

[Way2Broke]

I thought, and this may be a rumor, that you agreed to live in ABQ if you get assigned to that contract. AKA: No commuting.

 

[pilotyip]

I thought, and this may be a rumor, that you agreed to live in ABQ if you get assigned to that contract. AKA: No commuting.

We can not control what a pilot does on his days off, most schedules are built with weekends off only. If someone wants to go to PHX Sat morning and come back Sunday night, that is their choice.

 

[Way2Broke]

Gotcha. Phoenix is a pretty awesome city. Can we get a base there, or maybe Denver?

 

[pilotyip]

Find some work for us

Gotcha. Phoenix is a pretty awesome city. Can we get a base there, or maybe Denver?

You bring in a $10M contract for flying out of PHX; we will open a base there. Then we will even let you bid into PHX when your seniority will hold PHX.

 

[pilotyip]

whoops!

 

[Metro752]

Congratulations! Glad to hear it went smooooooth!

 

[iaflyer]

You guys should follow Connie's lead and get into the ultra-lucrative wide body main-deck International freight biz.

What am I missing here?

Someone asked that at a pilot meeting in 2003 - the response from RM was "that's not our market - on demand freight is our market". Meanwhile, Connnie went from 2 airplanes to 20 and now the 747-400s.

What JUS was missing was imagination - which Connie has and JUS seems to be getting. Hopefully it works out for them.

 

[Way2Broke]

You bring in a $10M contract for flying out of PHX; we will open a base there. Then we will even let you bid into PHX when your seniority will hold PHX.

I don't know if I could give up the Michigan Winters.

 

[Golden Falcon]

See Connie classics here in the Gulf still....

 

[pilotyip]

There was risk involved

Someone asked that at a pilot meeting in 2003 - the response from RM was "that's not our market - on demand freight is our market". Meanwhile, Connnie went from 2 airplanes to 20 and now the 747-400s.

What JUS was missing was imagination - which Connie has and JUS seems to be getting. Hopefully it works out for them.

so we stayed with the sure thing on-demand cargo. We were never going to fly pax, we were never going to do public charter, so maybe saying we were never gioing to do int'l widebody might be a good thing.