New era for USA Jet

[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.

 

[iaflyer]

There was risk involved. 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.

Sure - of course there is risk involved in new business ventures - but with risk comes reward. Apparently the company preferred to shrink than take risks and expand into other markets back then - but now look how that risk has paid off.

Life is about risk versus reward.

 

[pilotyip]

The truth

Sure - of course there is risk involved in new business ventures - but with risk comes reward. Apparently the company preferred to shrink than take risks and expand into other markets back then - but now look how that risk has paid off.

Life is about risk versus reward.

Ain't that the truth

 

[8sugarsugar]

In baseball, if you swing at every pitch, you'll have a horrible batting average

 

[CopilotDoug]

In baseball, if you swing at every pitch, you'll have a horrible batting average

too bad we're not talking baseball...

 

[DeltaLima21]

too bad we're not talking baseball...

No, but it's a great metaphor. In case you are unfamiliar....

Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά - metaphora, "a transfer", in rhetoric "transference of a word to a new sense", from μεταφέρω - metaphero, "to carry over, to transfer") is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. In the simplest case, this takes the form: "The [first subject] is a [second subject]." More generally, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope that describes a first subject as being or equal to a second subject in some way. Thus, the first subject can be economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the second subject are used to enhance the description of the first.

 

[Way2Broke]

The views of the landfills are like mountain views. :laugh:

The trailer park life is like being a rock star. :laugh:

 

[CopilotDoug]

No, but it's a great metaphor. In case you are unfamiliar...

It's an analogy, an irrelavant one at that.

Back to the point

With big risks come big rewards and USA Jet be in a prime position to succeed. Which is a good thing...

 

[hawk16e]

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.

I was at that meeting, the guy who asked the question and I are pretty close, so I know he did not want to "press to test" RM.

While a great reward requires a great risk, a great risk does not equal a great reward. ATI didn't quite work out for JUS.

 

[Porky]

Bump----

 

[pilotyip]

hey 827 is flying again things have to be getting better