Peter Pavarotti Westminster Choirboy

Capstone Turbine Heads Towards Profitability

at this point its Profit or merge.

I think the 1000 MW machine will do well.

We need some Germans running the company.
Perhaps some French marketing.
Italian to watch over the latter.

Why General Motors Should Be Delisted

I think you are dumber than a box of rocks.

Airline Deregulation: Now Do It for Real

Deregulation made the Airlines compete.
There are no profits in competition.
Monopolies make money and the public gets shafted just as they are getting shafted by Mr. Populist Chavez, & Iran's Almaheed (inanutjob) OPEC and greedy commodities traders.

Competition made the Legacy Carriers dinosaurs,
They are still dinosaurs even in pre & post Ch 11
They don’t know how to function efficiently nor take care of their employees.
Reregulation guarantees new monopolies or oligopolies.

Crandall was an A.H, hated by employee & Executives alike feared he was a bully in a bully pulpit. Like Jack the GE Welch & Chainsaw the idiot. Little dumb Caesars who made their operations lean and mean and the employees screwed. Hell like others they give to only causes, themselves. They intimidate scare people and profit. Mega-egoes mega Caesars. Mega Dictators who are worshiped by the management gods and hated by the workers.

Regulation will bring political appointees with lots of VPs in every city with big salaries an executive with a secretary in every city in charge of toilet paper to peanuts.

New York Air & People’s Express knocked these Legacy Carriers on their butts. I know they are gone now. Gone into Continental's lean mean fighting machine.( Social & Labor Academic Engineering Studies over on).
Regulation allows the unions the pilots and the flight attendants to get paid exorbitant wages; retirement that cannot b-sustained executives will make larges sums screwing the golden goose the Public. Only the very affluent & rich will be able to afford to fly. In effect Regulation guarantees a carrier will never fail or go chapter 11. Then who will pay, the consumer? Who pay the retirement & health bennies? YOU ME UNCLE SAM . PBGC.

Southwest keeps it simple and everyone must work & work hard to get paid. They are treated with decent pay benefits & sound religious principles and love their company.

Jet Blue was on the same SWA model until they went to two different airplanes, which was a kiss of death because it doubled their training costs maint. costs & made for scheduling nightmares. Overnight they went from a lean machine operator to a classic Harvard Case study circa the 60s Mohawk & Allegheny Airline. They also bought Airbuses, which exorbitant prices, which make your maint, shaft the French EU give to you, and then when you buy parts you. Costs double maybe triple and you are in trouble. Coupled with the JFK Delays and Airplane and paxs held hostage for hours destroyed their creditability with tough demanding unforgiving New York Paxs.

FAA & FAA ATC has changed very little because it is choked by gross incompetence and layers of useless unqualified managers who have meeting meetings & more meetings to death and a bureaucracy that has lost 1000s of poorly treated experienced people. The ATC architecture is still in the dark ages 1940-50s 60s. There is hope if is it was privatized where you could move it always from politics (political appointees & technical incompetence abound) They have burrowed so deep its incredible.
Make it a technical private government business and separate the regulatory functions & the funding that Congress hold hostage each year. That will never happen too many fiefdoms at stake.

There are no Champions, benevolent Kings Queens,
Real Leaders or People Managers in Corps & Govt.
Its an epidemic across the Nation Public Servants & Corporations they are so self centered and self profit motivated that they do not run their ships very well.

We need champion’s visionaries like CR Smith of American Airlines who bought the DC-3 revolutionized Airlines by being able to make a profit.
Howard Hughes brought innovation and a tight well-run well-oiled machine in TWA & Hughes Airiest. He provided money and demanded the Lockheed Constellations.

Delta was Classic people oriented profitable admirable operation they owned their ships now the banks aircraft & syndicates own them and suck the life blood funds out of carriers with interest.

Someone in the airline business is making huge quantities of cash the managers get their bonuses the employees get shafted and the banks executives and insurance companies who hold the mortgages on the flying machines suck the corpus dry.

Champions Bob Six at Continental’s Golden Years
Pat Patterson of United Air Lines.
I could go on for hours? About my beloved Flying machine business.
American Corporate Greed and Avarice.

Where are the Pete Quesada's and Najeeb Halbys of the FAA (CAA)?

Where is the Airline Executive of old like Juan Trippe who demanded the DC-8 the 707 the 747 brought us out of the Props. into the Jet Age. Where are the people countries who had the courage to build the SST and the Executives like Braniff's Harding Lawrence who chose to fly the SST in America.

Richard Branson in my eyes is the only 21st Century true benevolent King & Champion with the money the backing the brains and gonads the risk to go for it. To push the envelope. Ronald Reagan envisioned an Orient Express. The Technology sits idle unused because there is no champion no visionaries no infrastructure no risk takers to demand it.

Think about this Mach 8.0 4800 MPH KTS
Think about how world travel times would change like going from Panama Flying Boats 110kts to DC-6 to Connies 180 kts to Jets 480 kts .80 mach. to Mach 8.0 (5500 MPH)
There is no JFK that says lets go to the moon. and we did it.
There are few DARPA Geniuses left & visionaries who pushed for Mosaic the WWW and other great innovations and creations.

Where are the Champions? Where is the Champion?
to push the envelop and lead their troops and employees to glory.
Jesus Christ Allah The Creator. Where the Servant Leaders?

PRCIII