NJA orders 50 Phenom 300s

[gunfyter]

"In business and economics, predatory pricing is the practice of selling a product or service at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors."
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Sounds like free market capitalism 101. You don't want competitors ... so you kill them. If you can.

 

[DAS at 10/250]

Unfortunately it's like gm. Gm built crap for so long no one wanted their POS cars. They were going to go the way of the $1.99 hooker. Our gov stepped in and saved them Cessna and HBC have built crap for a long time as well. Why should they be saved? Hell, cessna, as mentioned before, started a company to compete against us! F 'em..

Yup.





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[rajflyboy]

Lets see

Embraer wants to sell a product.

Netjets wants to buy the product.

I don't see an issue with it. If Embraer wants to give them away and make no cash thats on them.

Netjets hopes the Phenom is as good as advertised.

Nothing illegal going on here.

 

[jtf]

There has been a lot of mud slinging by the Kansas politicians about this. Do they have any proof that Embraer is getting unfair government subsidies? Embraer has flatly denied all accusations. I have no idea if they are lying or not. I do know it is election season and politicians are trying to raise a stink when their state will probably lose more jobs now that Cessna is getting kicked to the curb due to not providing a good enough product and/ or a good enough deal. Honestly, even if they could do the same deal, they still don't make a durable enough product for what the fractionals do. Embraer came in and specifically asked the fractionals what they wanted and then went out and did it. I wish Cessna would have paid attention to what happened in Detroit, but so far they haven't and now Embraer has their foot in the door. Hopefully this big order will wake Cessna up and bring about some better made aircraft before it is too late for them. When I was at the regionals I made fun of the Embraers I flew since they appeared to break a lot. Then I started flying Cessna jets and realized the Embraers were practically tanks in comparison. I guess it is nice to get a break from flying when your airplane breaks just about every tour, but it sure isn't good for business.

Even if Embraer is proven to be getting the government subsidies, will it effect anything? Both Airbus and Boeing have been shown to take illegal money/ loans from their respective governments and there haven't been any cancelled orders for that that I have seen. It also took many years of forensic accounting to prove the respective cases against Airbus and Boeing. I highly doubt there is time to prove it before the orders are being filled. Is there any proof that Embraer is going to dump all the airplanes on the market at once? I guess if they can get away with it, it is good business for them (not saying I agree that they should do it). I just find it hard to believe this deal will be killed. Maybe it will be changed if the sabers are rattled, but unless Cessna can roll out a better product before 2013, I hope it stands.

 

[jonjuan]

"In business and economics, predatory pricing is the practice of selling a product or service at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors."
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Sounds like free market capitalism 101. You don't want competitors ... so you kill them. If you can.

Isn't this what the rest of the competitors in the industry have been doing for years, selling the same product/service for cheaper?

 

[Pervis]

Why not? Williams makes a great engine...

The engine maintenance requirements are the problem. I heard it has to do with all mx has to be done at the factory, or something like that. Who would foot the bill for spare engines all over the place?

 

[BoilerUP]

The engine maintenance requirements are the problem. I heard it has to do with all mx has to be done at the factory, or something like that. Who would foot the bill for spare engines all over the place?

Yes, Williams International is the only service provider for FJ44 engines.

That said, the engines are NOT maintenance intensive and Williams is the #1 rated engine manufacturer for support despite that fact and Williams can get a spare engine to any airplane in the domestic US in less than 24 hours (I know that from first-hand experience).

Besides, its not like NJA wouldn't enroll every aircraft in the TAP engine program (just like Pratt ESP/Honeywell MSP/Rolls Corporate Care/JSSI/etc.) where there are no additional costs for scheduled or unscheduled engine service to include rental engines besides the hourly engine program rate.

 

[Crash Pad]

What company did Cessna start to compete against you?

 

[BoilerUP]

CitationShares was started in 2000 as a 50/50 joint venture between Cessna and TAG Aviation USA; in 2004 Cessna bought half of TAG's stake giving it 75/25 ownership and just last year at NBAA Cessna announced they were buying TAG's last remaining stake to make CitationAir wholly-owned.

 

[Crash Pad]

So how do we know that Cessna created CS to directly compete with NJ?