Earth calling James
James
JR failed.... end of story... nuff said? whether we said 'told you do or not, its bombed.
what was it Yoda said? "there is no try?.....only do..." (apologies to George Lucas) a degree of risk management/assessment is crucial in business planning and JR had risk in their model off the scale.....
Re us 'experienced types getting together, we already did! its called the successful aircraft management business model where multiple operators of diverse types operator commercially and sell time direct to consumers and through third parties..... its called mutually beneficial cooperation.
some operators may whinge about brokers and vice versa, pilots may not like management and vice versa, but at the end of the day we are all doing a bloody good job together for our clients, long term. its a marriage and we make it work. (Lets not slag each other off too much pls, we have a lot to be proud of)
we have operators, owners, brokers, travel agents, and clients who have worked seamlessly to create our industry over the last 40 odd years. It works :-)
the only person sipping a cocktail on a beach right now is probably the ex head of JR...... me? im at my desk along with al the other people who make our industry work long term for aircraft owners and clients :-)