BLUE BAYOU
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Unless we hit a homerun in the fourth quarter, I'd say we're looking at a loss for the year...
Ahhh, you ain't seen concessionary yet, my friend...
I do know this much, nothing will move in the right direction until the vote is done. I look around, not just at the airline industry, but my neighborhood and I'm finding some gloomy outlook as people struggle with layoffs, plunging retirement savings and pensions in jeopardy-- to name a few; the confidence of the American spender, is to NOT in the coming future.
If the load factors around the holidays are a preview (I flew some flights with 30 people on board) of things to come in 2009, hold on tight. In the 8 years I've been here, we had fuller planes around the holidays after 9/11 than we did this past season with our reduction in capacity-- If the union does get voted in, we're not going to have any kind of bargaining power at all if the economy continues in this recession. So if you ask me, the timing is way, way off!
Ahhh, you ain't seen concessionary yet, my friend...
I do know this much, nothing will move in the right direction until the vote is done. I look around, not just at the airline industry, but my neighborhood and I'm finding some gloomy outlook as people struggle with layoffs, plunging retirement savings and pensions in jeopardy-- to name a few; the confidence of the American spender, is to NOT in the coming future.
If the load factors around the holidays are a preview (I flew some flights with 30 people on board) of things to come in 2009, hold on tight. In the 8 years I've been here, we had fuller planes around the holidays after 9/11 than we did this past season with our reduction in capacity-- If the union does get voted in, we're not going to have any kind of bargaining power at all if the economy continues in this recession. So if you ask me, the timing is way, way off!