Jake Brace
Jake Brace
exit facility response validation
Response to syndication of our exit facility is yet another validation of the substantial and sustainable improvements made during our restructuring.
attract business despite environment exit fact financing gotten industry last plan united
This validates our business plan and demonstrates that despite the fact that the industry environment has gotten tougher, the United business plan can attract even more all-debt exit financing than it could last winter.
issues possibly resolve
We're going to resolve as many of these issues as we possibly can,
facing lots message negative people sentiment talk
We're facing some negative sentiment in Washington. We talk to lots of people in Washington. Their message is: More is needed.
airline vastly
We are a vastly different airline than we were in 2002,
couple days final order wait
We did everything that we set out to do. We have to wait a couple of days to get the final order we need.
business year
We didn't think it would be $50 every year of the business plan. Clearly, in 2006 it's not going to be $50.
airlines existed united
I think this is a much, much different United Airlines than the one that existed in 2002.
blazing products terms trail
We are blazing our own trail in terms of what products and offerings we have.
industry reached
We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.
early generate ignore premium revenue signs value
We're not going to ignore the low-value customer, but we're going to try and generate a revenue premium from the high-value customer. And the early signs of that are very promising.
company determine exchange open recovery trading true value
We'll open trading on an exchange and that will determine what the value of the company will be. That's when you'll be able to determine what the true recovery will be.
agreement employee issues pension pleased reached resolved retirement
Once this agreement is ratified, we will now have resolved pension and retirement issues with all of our employee groups. We're pleased to have reached this agreement.
estimate external less
That's considerably less than some external estimate I've seen.