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Old 20th Sep 2009, 19:09
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Something, I don't know what it is, is still possessing men to spend hundreds of millions on launching risky unproven ideas in the worst possible climate. Every single startup airline gives projections of the kind that are only found in lala land. JB has been a long time in the making, and the investment in the startup seems to be sound but for the life of me I can't see such an operation lasting for more than a year. It does occasionally happen, but only 1 in 5 are even remotely successful. Only 1 in 100 ever meet the projections they make.

I am currently on their files and am due a call for a telephone based interview next month. I hope and pray I get the job and JB do well but I'm far too realistic for this world (and probably my own good) to believe that they are even going to have 10% of the success NetJets have had.
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