The, highly misguided, people in Tempe had over 418 million burning a hole in their corporate pockets and we said nothing when they "invested" corporate money in junk bonds.
I think it is past time for pitchforks and tar. IMHO.
A330-200 to MUC in October?
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I think it is past time for pitchforks and tar. IMHO.
Harry Callahan
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You are 100% correct sir.
Travelpro72
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Well considering US had that period of wanting to advertise on anything with a flat surface why not resurrect it? How about the 330-200 in a Walmart livery. How appropriate? 
Travelpro72
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As I sat around sipping my glass of wine I got to thinking. Ya know, this company who won't pay for proper crew rest for flight attendants because of "cost" is the SAME company that painted and repainted Heritage aircraft due to them being incorrect. US painted the Piedmont plane twice because the blue (heaven forbid) was off and they repainted the cheat line of the Allegheny aircraft since it wasn't thick enough. Oh wait they even went back and made the G'damn smile on the PSA plane wider. Accuracy is key but they had money for that crap but can't pay for a properly rested crew? Unbelievable? No actually quite the contrary. 
So you are special and ever other Tom Dick and Harry has to endure the ordeals
Yes I’ am baiting you
I would think this is a major deal. I though financing was originally done with Airbus
I feel a squeeze play coming
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Parker said that Airbus was a last resort. Apparently some Airbus financing is arranged for other deliveries that may be "swapped around" to cover some of this year's deliveries.
It's in the Feb CLT crew news for pilots under the "Widebodies" segment.
Jim
Instead of sending the A330-200 to MUC. US should use the aircraft for flights to NRT. The timing would be perfect with TLV. With the arrival in of 5:30 AM. A flight to NRT could depart around 11:30 AM. It would arrive in time for connections to BKK, SIN, PVG, HKG and ICN and for connecting traffic back to PHL. Leaving NRT around 16:30 arriving back in PHL around 17:45, leaving plenty of time for the 21:30 departure to TLV.
BoeingBoy
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john-john,
This was in the papers today, reporting on an analyst conference call:
US Airways has 25 aircraft deliveries planned for this year, all of them from Airbus. Loans are lined up for 20 of them, said Derek Kerr, the company's chief financial officer. But they need financing for five A330s. He said they are talking to Airbus about the possibility that it might finance the plane, which the airline needs for its long-haul destinations such as Tel Aviv.
"We want to take them, Airbus wants to deliver them to us, so we will come up with some kind of solution," Kerr said.
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Jim
This was in the papers today, reporting on an analyst conference call:
US Airways has 25 aircraft deliveries planned for this year, all of them from Airbus. Loans are lined up for 20 of them, said Derek Kerr, the company's chief financial officer. But they need financing for five A330s. He said they are talking to Airbus about the possibility that it might finance the plane, which the airline needs for its long-haul destinations such as Tel Aviv.
"We want to take them, Airbus wants to deliver them to us, so we will come up with some kind of solution," Kerr said.
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Jim
There was discussion about this issue in yesterdays JP Morgan conference call.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?...EventId=2128848
Exactly - with 5 of them coming - this should provide good usage for them.
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As far as the latest numbers available show, starting PVG would be a better option if they wanted to tie all 5 of this year's deliveries up on only two routes. As of November of last year, traffic between the US and Japan was down 17.3% year over year vs up 3.3% for China (PRC & Hong Kong).
Jim
