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by Strobes
Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:15 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Potential Airline Bailout
Replies: 233
Views: 44801

Re: Potential Airline Bailout

Sounds like you guys would align with us in the Libertarian Party.

“Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff”
by Strobes
Sat Dec 31, 2016 11:11 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: 2016 Sunwing Interviews
Replies: 50
Views: 25592

Re: 2016 Sunwing Interviews

It was a wet lease aircraft.
by Strobes
Mon May 09, 2016 8:19 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Fort Mac Relief
Replies: 12
Views: 3061

Re: Fort Mac Relief

I'm with Co-Joe on this one. The Red Cross won't be able to do much. Our money is better spent on community organizations in Fort Mac that will be needed for the rebuilding. Like Big Bros/Big Sis'es, YMCA, Lion's club, etc. Doesn't have the same "pzazz", but at least the money won't go towards opera...
by Strobes
Fri Mar 04, 2016 6:18 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Westjet cover up: Alleged sexual assaults by pilot
Replies: 425
Views: 46608

Re: Westjet cover up: Alleged sexual assaults by pilot

Whatever happened with "Innocent until proven guilty"???? Y'all are talking as if Pilot M has been convicted in a court of law!!! Has he? Howcome the pilot can't go to Hawaii, which is a US state, but no mention of him being kept away from all US flights altogether... One would think that he is want...
by Strobes
Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:16 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Iran sanctions lifted goes on airplane buy spree - A380's
Replies: 32
Views: 4827

Re: Iran sanctions lifted goes on airplane buy spree - A380'

Can we get back on track? Any more news on fleet renewal?
by Strobes
Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:17 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Employment Hedge
Replies: 9
Views: 4401

Re: Employment Hedge

Organic Farmer. Hobby level right now, can ramp up to full-time pay in a few months.
by Strobes
Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:34 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Whither the economy?
Replies: 29
Views: 7076

Re: Whither the economy?

Remember folks, if you're your own boss, you can't get fired or laid off! Sure you can: your customer(s) can fire you. It's just called going out of business, or going bankrupt. Or both. That's all dependent on your business, but yes, the only one who you can blame is yourself. Which is why I prefe...
by Strobes
Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:20 pm
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Calgary-bound Sunwing passengers angry after 8-hour wait.
Replies: 34
Views: 15334

Re: Calgary-bound Sunwing passengers angry after 8-hour wait

Good thing everything that went wrong that day was out of the control of Sunwing then... Weather... Check! Ground Handler issues.... Check! Big ass pile of snow blocking the jetway... Check! Customs-bound pax had enough of waiting... Check! I'd love to hear what Sunwing could've done here... Because...
by Strobes
Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:50 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: North Pole temperature above freezing - December 30, 2015
Replies: 271
Views: 30083

Re: North Pole temperature above freezing - December 30, 201

I didn't bother reading the 8 pages - lol - of debate, but let's get a few facts straight. I am climate-change neutral, btw. The absolute worst prediction of sea level rise between now at 2050 is 5cm. So no water up to the armpits, like many would like us to believe. In the 1970's, main stream media...
by Strobes
Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:47 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: New Leaf (ULCC) starts February 12
Replies: 120
Views: 29206

Re: New Leaf (ULCC) starts February 12

I see promise but with bad timing. Promise, in the sense that many of you are discounting using an ACMI agreement for the lift. Well, I know of one airline in Canada that did that in the early years, and that airline is now successfully running as Sunwing. Permanently using Flair would be a bad idea...
by Strobes
Tue Dec 29, 2015 12:26 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Whither the economy?
Replies: 29
Views: 7076

Re: Whither the economy?

recession proof job What would that be? 1) Tax Collector 2) Prostitute 3) Drug Dealer The Government will never go out of business, and people will always have money for addictions and guilty pleasures. Agree on: 4) Government worker. Especially if your government believes in Keynesian economics. O...
by Strobes
Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:53 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Layman starts an airline. The big project
Replies: 20
Views: 6672

Re: Layman starts an airline. The big project

Regarding pt 1 and your fuel cost calculations... Airlines do fuel hedging. The $7.30/gal that you quoted from flightaware in ORD is the retail price for visiting private aircraft. Major airlines have a much lower cost because they purchase in bulk, and thus get a bulk price. (My guess is about 50% ...
by Strobes
Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:39 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Syrian Refugee Thread Deleted??
Replies: 55
Views: 16790

Re: Syrian Refugee Thread Deleted??

One final note on Comparisons: A TRUE muslim will wage wars, will practice slavery, will rape, will treat women as chattel, will look down on all other peoples, will kill other muslims for apostacy, will lie and cheat to non-believers, and will subjucate christians and "jews" with a tax and as a co...
by Strobes
Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:36 am
Forum: General Airline Industry Comments
Topic: Syrian Refugee Thread Deleted??
Replies: 55
Views: 16790

Re: Syrian Refugee Thread Deleted??

Good luck getting off oil. Oil has entered a downturn because of supply glut and will stay low for a long time. So the world will burn it. Because of that, living conditions in the ME will go lower, and extremism will actually rise - "angry poor people looking for someone to blame". Kinda like Oct ...
by Strobes
Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:05 pm
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Air India ground crew sucked into engine
Replies: 23
Views: 5371

Re: Air India ground crew sucked into engine

AvHerald now reports that pilots were in a hurry and started moving forward before getting the all clear from ground crew.

http://avherald.com/h?article=490e9d05&opt=0
by Strobes
Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:54 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter...
Replies: 135
Views: 16346

Re: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter...

Of course they are. Perfect? No. But here in the west we have freedom of the press and by and large it's something they take seriously...with some notable exceptions. You can't seriously put western news services on the same page as the outright lies of a true propaganda mouthpiece serving a dictat...
by Strobes
Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:06 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter...
Replies: 135
Views: 16346

Re: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter...

I would shy away personally from holding Assad fully responsible for this. Yes, governmental forces provided the spark when the schoolchildren were arrested, and then they shot at the protesters, no doubt there. But when it comes to your last question... We know what Assad will do to stay in power. ...
by Strobes
Fri Dec 04, 2015 7:56 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter...
Replies: 135
Views: 16346

Re: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter...

Leaders legitimately elected by 80% of the population don't have to kill 220,000 (and rising) of their citizens and force millions more to flee the country to cling to power. And your source for "facts" is a branch of Russian Television funded and controlled by the Russian government. Seriously pal...
by Strobes
Fri Nov 20, 2015 7:52 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: How to offer in flight wifi on 703 planes
Replies: 14
Views: 2436

Re: How to offer in flight wifi on 703 planes

I remember my ADF needles going haywire whenever one of the pilots had forgotten to put their cell on flight mode, and received texts and notifications. Not sure you want that to happen in the north on final on an NDB app to minimums. That's probably going to be a pretty big hurdle right there.
by Strobes
Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:08 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Enerjet and the refugees
Replies: 31
Views: 3476

Re: Enerjet and the refugees

Canada is unable to properly take care of it's own "REAL CANADIANS" (FN and everyone else), how the bloody hell do you expect us to take care of new arrivals who do not speak our language, have no experience with the separation of Church and State, and whose country is being blown up by the product ...

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