Jim Corridore
Jim Corridore
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With the trouble in the Gulf oil refineries, the airline industry will see pretty high losses in the third quarter,
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But the airline might file sooner, maybe in the next couple of months, to take advantage of the more lenient bankruptcy laws.
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For a new start-up, you cannot underestimate the competitive response of one of the major airlines if you try to move into their area and attract customers by discounting.
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Oil prices were already very bad, this new rise is going to make it very rough. The airline industry will see pretty high losses in the third quarter.
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We're pretty positive on the airline industry right now.
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Carriers that stayed out of bankruptcy have done a good job of cutting their controllable costs -- oil is obviously not one of them -- and demand for air travel has been very strong. The holiday season has been good for them.
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The stock is up slightly today as the uncertainty of strike is lifted from the company. United really had no choice but to accept the PEB findings. They couldn't survive a month with a strike. But guaranteeing 37 percent wage hikes is only going to weaken a company that is already weak.
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The strike couldn't be going any better for them. That's not to say they can keep this up for weeks. It remains to be seen whether they will eventually run into some kind of mechanical problems.
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The time to get into these stocks is when things are still poor .We've already seen that. More gains might be tough to come by.
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We think that a full and rising backlog and margin improvement should help Boeing do better than its forecast.
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That would certainly go a long way to helping the company. Labor costs are the biggest bucket they can attack. The government might be more willing to help with this level of cuts. Even with DIP financing, they're going to face a liquidity problem. They could use those loan guarantees.
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That would certainly go a long way to helping the company, ... Labor costs are the biggest bucket they can attack. The government might be more willing to help with this level of cuts. Even with DIP financing, they're going to face a liquidity problem. They could use those loan guarantees.
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I would be extremely surprised if what the unions came up with was enough to keep United out of bankruptcy. Typically these unions have a lot of animosity with each other. I don't hold out a lot of hope.
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If we get back into the $70s and stay there it obviously throws our model.