39 ordspråk av John Heimlich
John Heimlich
Although airlines have recently passed through a few price increases, they pale in comparison to the magnitude of the sustained rise in jet fuel prices.
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By then, we'd better have this problem rectified or we'll have a serious problem,
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Clearly the more we get the sooner the better.
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Every time the trust fund is going down, they say we're going to have to come to the airlines for more revenue. I say you don't have a revenue problem, you have a cost problem.
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Everything that relates to cash matters now. It would have been helpful to have the payroll taxes deferred, but this will go part of the way.
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Fuel prices are the difference between record profitability (for some airlines) and a year of crappy losses.
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I still see the economy as absolute the No. 1 factor, (even with) as many other factors as there are nowadays,
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I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.
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If we were passing these [higher fuel costs] through, we'd be reporting profits . . . and we're not.
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In terms of the broad picture, it looks like there will be new choices and more seats going internationally versus last year. But things will be a little bit tighter domestically.
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International capacity is up 5 percent, year over year.
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It's a dagger in an open wound.
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It's sort of a one-stop shopping experience, and the idea is to make the traveler feel like he or she is truly traveling on one airline.
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Simply put, today's jet fuel prices are crushing and could prove to be a knockout blow for some [airlines].
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Still, with fuel prices so high, the last thing you want is an interruption in your revenue stream.
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