Hooters Air Goes Bust

[Jim Burns]

Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem, N.C.

Bob Brooks, chairman of the Hooters restaurant chain, and president
Mark Peterson told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News for a story Wednesday that
the company will focus on charters for tour groups and sports teams.

"The flying industry is in a terrible mess. ... I've got a fair amount
of money, but I don't have enough to fix this animal," Brooks told the
newspaper. "Now I think the best thing we can do is basically put it to bed,
at least for right now, until the industry changes."

Hooters Air, which last summer served 15 destinations including
non-stop flights to the Bahamas has been suspending and canceling flights
since Christmas. Its Web site shows it as having three Boeing aircraft.

Industry analysts have said problems for the Myrtle Beach-based
airline range from a highly competitive low-fare airline industry to rising
fuel prices.

A woman who answered the phone at the airline's Myrtle Beach office
said neither Brooks nor Peterson would give interviews and referred The
Associated Press to The Sun News article. A woman who answered the airline's
customer service line said Hooters would take reservations until April 17.
Neither woman would give her name.

Peterson told the newspaper that some of the roughly 350 employees in
Winston-Salem will be laid off, but he didn't say how many.

Brooks bought Pace Airlines in 2002 and launched its first scheduled
flights from Myrtle Beach to Atlanta on March 6, 2003.

[tony roberts]

So it's true then that they have gone tits up?

Tony
C-ICE

In article >,
"Jim Burns" > wrote:

> Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
> MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
> orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
> beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem, N.C.
>
> Bob Brooks, chairman of the Hooters restaurant chain, and president
> Mark Peterson told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News for a story Wednesday that
> the company will focus on charters for tour groups and sports teams.
>
> "The flying industry is in a terrible mess. ... I've got a fair amount
> of money, but I don't have enough to fix this animal," Brooks told the
> newspaper. "Now I think the best thing we can do is basically put it to bed,
> at least for right now, until the industry changes."
>
> Hooters Air, which last summer served 15 destinations including
> non-stop flights to the Bahamas has been suspending and canceling flights
> since Christmas. Its Web site shows it as having three Boeing aircraft.
>
> Industry analysts have said problems for the Myrtle Beach-based
> airline range from a highly competitive low-fare airline industry to rising
> fuel prices.
>
> A woman who answered the phone at the airline's Myrtle Beach office
> said neither Brooks nor Peterson would give interviews and referred The
> Associated Press to The Sun News article. A woman who answered the airline's
> customer service line said Hooters would take reservations until April 17.
> Neither woman would give her name.
>
> Peterson told the newspaper that some of the roughly 350 employees in
> Winston-Salem will be laid off, but he didn't say how many.
>
> Brooks bought Pace Airlines in 2002 and launched its first scheduled
> flights from Myrtle Beach to Atlanta on March 6, 2003.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

[Peter R.]

tony roberts > wrote:

> So it's true then that they have gone tits up?

What a boob.

--
Peter

[Roy Smith]

In article >,
"Peter R." > wrote:

> tony roberts > wrote:
>
> > So it's true then that they have gone tits up?
>
> What a boob.

I had such good mammaries of them.

[Montblack]

("tony roberts" wrote)
> So it's true then that they have gone tits up?


....up a sweater?


Montblack

[Morgans]

"Jim Burns" > wrote in message
...
> Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
> MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
> orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
> beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem,
N.C.

They just did not have the balls to stay in the business.
--
Jim in NC

[Prime]

Roy Smith > posted the exciting message news:roy-
:

> In article >,
> "Peter R." > wrote:
>
>> tony roberts > wrote:
>>
>> > So it's true then that they have gone tits up?
>>
>> What a boob.
>
> I had such good mammaries of them.

I think they've turned the other cheek.

[Mortimer Schnerd, RN]

Jim Burns wrote:
> Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
> MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
> orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
> beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem, N.C.


Well, hell. I have a friend who flies (or flew) for them. I guess I better
give him a call and see what's up.




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

[Matt Barrow]

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" > wrote in message
...
> Jim Burns wrote:
>> Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
>> MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
>> orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
>> beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem,
>> N.C.
>
>
> Well, hell. I have a friend who flies (or flew) for them. I guess I
> better give him a call and see what's up.
>
>
Or, given this news, down.

[Darkwing]

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" > wrote in message
...
> Jim Burns wrote:
>> Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
>> MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
>> orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
>> beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem,
>> N.C.
>
>
> Well, hell. I have a friend who flies (or flew) for them. I guess I
> better give him a call and see what's up.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mortimer Schnerd, RN
>
>
>
>

Did he actually let them pay him?

-----------------------------------------
DW

[RST Engineering]

Well, at least the chairman made a clean breast of it.

Jim



"Jim Burns" > wrote in message
...
> Hooters Air Goes Bust 3/29/2006 at 17:55:59
> MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 29) - Hooters Air, which featured women in
> orange short-shorts and tight T-shirts on flights, will be grounded
> beginning next month except for private charters out of Winston-Salem,
> N.C.
>
> Bob Brooks, chairman of the Hooters restaurant chain, and president
> Mark Peterson told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News for a story Wednesday that
> the company will focus on charters for tour groups and sports teams.