You can cut the cash burn in half by removing the special dividend and profit sharing. Something tells me that there won't be any profits to share next year. Still, $300M/quarter is >$3M/day. If that keeps up, UAUA will be back in BK in less than a year.
Andy-
Where are you getting that cash decreased by 650M as you stated in a previous post? I'm missing that? I'm looking at UAL's Condensed Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows that they just released today, and I'm not seeing a figure resembling that one or even adding up to that figure?
I see that cash/short term investments for the YEAR of MAR 31 2007 to MAR 31 2008 decreased by 445M. I see that total cash (restricted and unrestricted) went down by 573M for the YEAR of MAR 31 2007 to MAR 31 2008. And almost half of those figures was a dividend they didn't even need to pay.
And for the quarter (this quarter), I see that cash went down 250M for that ridiculous dividend payment and 182M for debt repayment and 80M for operations.
So although these results absolutely suck, I'm a little skeptical of your claim that we couuld be in bankruptcy by the end of the year (barring something even worse happening to the industry), considering we have over 2.9B in unrestricted cash and 3B in assets (according to Brace) to borrow against and you're extrapolating that 300M dollars/quarter based on a traditionally weak quarter (1Q) and I assume an unecessary dividend payout.
As you mention, we probably won't be seeing profit sharing, and I would hope(!) that we're not going to see that second 250M dividend distribution. Just those two things alone would have taken a significant chunk out of our negative cash flow.