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UNOY no. 29
By Charles Martin | April 10, 2008
People often wonder why I have a UNOY license plate.
There’s a reason for it as in I everything I do [mostly :)]. It’s a tongue in cheek nod that means before you ask yourself a stupid question (as to how you got into a certain mess), you might be honest with yourself and say “I know why”. The hothead is no different, hence the reason he has the plate.
98% of my customers that have an odd bad check in our files, say “I KNEW that was a weird deal!”. Life is the same all around isn’t it? When you cut a corner, it will come back to haunt you — gaurantee it.
Today it’s about the cancellations of 1000 American flights over three days.
It’s a new environment we live in.
Uknew Airlines. Unew that utilizing an overburdened infrastructure and the application of planes that are past their prime would be problematic. Been on a Super 80 lately? They’re smelly, stunk out and in need of dire replacement. Oil (the new enviornment element) won’t allow a change now. Too late.
Weguessed. Weguessed the over-burdened financial markets would become over-cautious and their fears would spill over into many other verticals. In effect, everybody is running scared. The FAA is just like your local mortgage bank. They are going to look at your application (in this case repair reports) much closer. It will take weeks to approve a wire harness measurement instead of doing it over a cocktail at the airline commissary. Southwest blew the cushy cover which is no different that the mort apps that flew through over a long weekend at the lake.
This is only the beginning. Buckle down.
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