(SA) Final Ultimatum

Or is entitled Final Ultimatum. The trouble with you, Jim, is that you're too damned old-

How easy on Reg, just hold your hair on. I've got good reasons for resisting change. There's a world recession right now. Fuel prices are going up and up. Buying two more planes could bankrupt. Business is a gamble.

If you don't gamble, you go down the drain. I agree with you, Reg, but now is not the time. Look, this cargo for us to fly, Jim. It's not that the business isn't there for us to pick up, for instance.

Well, what about decker engineering? They use Arctic Air Cargo Services. Yeah, we can snatch the contract right out from under Arctic's noses. We can lose them when it comes to efficiency. But deckers won't break a contract and then has two more years to run.

Then we can tend to for it. We have to expand Jim. Can't you see that? This is just plain crazy. Arctic have doubled their air cargo fleet in the last year. And their planes are flying half empty, not to mention that the company is up to its ears in depth.

And right now we are on a solid financial footing. We've got a good cash flow. We start borrowing to buy more planes at these horrific interest rates. We go bust. Is that what you want?

You know damn well I don't want that, but I do want to see a scroll. You'll grow Reg, but at the right time, by that time it'll be too late. Okay, Jim, I can't do anything without your agreement, but I advise you to think it over.

Are you there? Oh, come in, Red, you're just in time for coffee.