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Hooters Air calls it quits
The Sun News ^ | March 29, 2006 | Kathleen Vereen Dayton

Posted on 03/29/2006 10:58:02 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

After a three-year run, Myrtle Beach's homegrown airline, Hooters Air, is bowing out of regularly scheduled air service. The airline will cease its public charter flights April 17 and will run only private charters out of Winston Salem, N.C.

Bob Brooks, the airline's founder, and its president, Mark Peterson, said Hooters Air will serve large groups such as sports teams and tour groups, which was the original business model for Pace Airlines. Brooks acquired Pace in December 2002.

The airline has approximately 350 employees in Winston-Salem. Peterson said some will be laid off. About five Myrtle Beach employees, including ground and ticket agents, will also be laid off.

(Excerpt) Read more at centredaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airlines; business; hooters; losers4clients; ncbusiness; ncenterprise; tangouniform; travel
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Hooters Air goes bust.
1 posted on 03/29/2006 10:58:03 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Stiff competition, apparently.


2 posted on 03/29/2006 10:58:32 AM PST by jdm
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.


3 posted on 03/29/2006 10:59:02 AM PST by jpl ("We don't negotiate with terrorists, we put them out of business." - Scott McClellan)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Say it ain't so...


4 posted on 03/29/2006 10:59:20 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Always Right
In event of a water "landing", your flight attendant can be used as a flotation device.
5 posted on 03/29/2006 11:03:36 AM PST by KarlInOhio (If you have a leaking pipe, you shut off the water valve before deciding on amnesty for the puddles.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Their former motto:

"Flying on two boobs and a prayer."


6 posted on 03/29/2006 11:03:50 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I guess their falsie expectations have been deflated.


7 posted on 03/29/2006 11:04:09 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

In laying off the workers, the CEO made a clean breast of the situation.


8 posted on 03/29/2006 11:04:43 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
In related News:

[Breast] Implants may be risky on [space] shuttle flights [could explode]

9 posted on 03/29/2006 11:05:00 AM PST by Always Right
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To: MineralMan

had to be a boob to think that would work.


10 posted on 03/29/2006 11:05:30 AM PST by RolandBurnam (I WANT SOME PORK RINDS!!!!!)
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To: MineralMan

I would imagine the chicken breast sandwich is very popular at Hooters.


11 posted on 03/29/2006 11:05:53 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Could be why
12 posted on 03/29/2006 11:06:30 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: RolandBurnam

Their business was FLAT


13 posted on 03/29/2006 11:07:21 AM PST by Youngman442002
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

"I would imagine the chicken breast sandwich is very popular at Hooters."

The breast of lamb is also very popular. I like mine with a couple of jugs of beer.

Ah, but all that's left now are the mammaries.


14 posted on 03/29/2006 11:08:16 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan

Does Happy Hour have a 2-for-1 special?


15 posted on 03/29/2006 11:09:04 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: Youngman442002

last one out..please turn off the hair dryer


16 posted on 03/29/2006 11:09:15 AM PST by Youngman442002
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Everyone was fighting to sit in row sex....I mean six.


17 posted on 03/29/2006 11:10:06 AM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: BulletBobCo

It must have been something to watch them shut the overhead bins....


18 posted on 03/29/2006 11:11:03 AM PST by Youngman442002
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To: RolandBurnam
had to be a boob to think that would work.

It might have, if the stewardess had been hooters girls or dressed like them (they weren't and didn't).

19 posted on 03/29/2006 11:11:16 AM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Youngman442002

"It must have been something to watch them shut the overhead bins...."

I think they used double pneumatic closers.


20 posted on 03/29/2006 11:11:46 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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