I'd like to know how you can lose $600 million in the last quarter and still stay in business? Not to mention the billions lost since before 9/11. We're talking big bucks here just being flushed. Jose Prize Fan of a shareholder at Eastern's annual meeting years ago pointing out that the more EA flew the more money they lost, so why didn't they really cut back on their flights and maybe not lose so much? In a message dated 8/8/2003 4:19:46 AM Central Daylight Time, dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: 747 domestic > Date: 8/8/2003 4:19:46 AM Central Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx";>dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > I saw a chart recently, can't remember where, that showed that UA's > break-even load factor has been over 100%. In other words, with the plane full, they > still lose money. > > -- > David Mueller / HNL > dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.quanterium.com > > --------- Original Message --------- > > DATE: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 03:02:56 > From: Alireza Alivandivafa <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: > > >In a message dated 8/1/2003 5:52:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > >bahadiracuner@xxxxxxxxx writes: > > > ><<I was chatting with a United agent yesterday at IAD (had lots of time to > >kill) > >and she said that they have a 747-400 run that does IAD-LAX everyday packed > >to its > >tail. Wish I was able to get on that instead of being stuck in ORD. > >>> > > > >Since when? Last I checked, UA was only running the 744 LAX-ORD, having > >replaced the 744 to DEN with a 777. Also, if they are packing 744s to the > tail on > >domestic flights, how come they lose so much money? >