New Virgin America

Woo hoo, into a world of high fuel costs, steep transcon competitition, et al.

Good luck Mr. Branson.
 
To the best of my knowledge Virgin is batting 50/50 with their airlines- Vintage some DC-3 operator out of FL, a corp. charter company and Virgin Sun all went out of business.

Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Express
Virgin Blue
Virgin Nigeria
 
I_Money said:
To the best of my knowledge Virgin is batting 50/50 with their airlines- Vintage some DC-3 operator out of FL, a corp. charter company and Virgin Sun all went out of business.

Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Express
Virgin Blue
Virgin Nigeria
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...Anyone think that the continued use of "Virgin" for all of Branson's subsidaries is past played!?
 
I dont like the foriegn owned cariers coming into the US. I think its wrong, we are already "over capacity" with the airlines here.

Another thing too, this wil lead to foreign flag cariers that are government owned...not good for our own, privately owned companies.
 
Everyone knocks their pay... They are paying their Captain's $80K/year. Is that really that bad considering they are all first year captains?

I don't think too many other airlines are hiring street captains but this can't be too far off from what any other airline pays a first year pilot? I am also guessing that the pay goes up dramatically each year?
 
SIUav8er said:
I dont like the foriegn owned cariers coming into the US. I think its wrong, we are already "over capacity" with the airlines here.

Another thing too, this wil lead to foreign flag cariers that are government owned...not good for our own, privately owned companies.
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There should be regulations on that.

They are kind of stupid though. Instead of coming to the US where there are lots of competition, they should have gone to South America where there isn't so much. They could easily put some airlines out of bussiness there. Then again, maybe they can do the same here.
 
BCTAv8r said:
There should be regulations on that.

They are kind of stupid though. Instead of coming to the US where there are lots of competition, they should have gone to South America where there isn't so much. They could easily put some airlines out of bussiness there. Then again, maybe they can do the same here.
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There actually are regulations restricting foriegn carriers from flying domestic routes in the US...at least there used to be. I beleive the term to describe a foreign airline flying domestic routes is called "cabotage"

I remember something about this in the news recently where Bush was concidering legislation allowing foriegn carriers to fly domestic routes...but im not sure of the details (or if its even final yet). Im sure there is plenty of opposition from US carriers...and I am strongly against it. Its just gonna send US companies further down the drain and as already discused in this thread pilot payscales along with them.
 
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