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Post subject: Re: Eclipse Air Taxi is Baaaack  Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 21:37 |
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Username Protected wrote: After 9-11 insurance has about doubled. Fuel over the last 5 years has been up and down, and insurance penalties for pilots who are not sim trained every year. All this puts charter in the unreasonable category. Some companies will not buy an aircraft it today’s environment because they do not want the stigma that goes with that. So, charter, for however unreasonable it is, is still a benefit. So this is how the economics have changed. I ran VLJ taxi service by a big wig at a country club once. His simple question: "Can I stand up to pee? If not, I'm not going."
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Post subject: Re: Eclipse Air Taxi is Baaaack Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 22:26 |
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Username Protected wrote: That's insane. Why would you pay that kind of money to sit in that tiny airplane? Can't even fit a hot stewardess in there. Yes you can (fit the hot stewardess in there). But, she has to sit in your lap. Oh, BTW, there's an extra charge for that... 
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Post subject: Re: Eclipse Air Taxi is Baaaack Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 22:29 |
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Username Protected wrote: That's insane. Why would you pay that kind of money to sit in that tiny airplane? Can't even fit a hot stewardess in there. Yes you can (fit the hot stewardess in there). But, she has to sit in your lap. Oh, BTW, there's an extra charge for that...
And that doesn't included the cost for fixing broken transponder knobs....
(or any other knob you might damage in the process)
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