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Old August 25th 07, 02:29 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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Default Columbia Aircraf: 300 Worker Lay Off Due To Garmin G1000 Issues

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:11:11 -0700, "Al G"
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:20:20 GMT, Matt Whiting
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Well, if the payroll costs of 300 employees averaged $25/each,



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Agreed. That's about the price of twenty SR22s. Customers get a five
day delivery delay, and Columbia gets half a ~$million. Smooth.


An Sr22 costs $30,000? Or are you talking about that insurance
paper...

Al G


Matt mentioned the figure $600,000, and it is my understanding that
the price of SR22s is ~$300,000 each, so it looks like by math was off
by a factor of 10 (again). Thanks.