TexasCowboy

I thought it was ecologically friendly to recycle and repurpose?

That's a manji armband not a swastika.

I hope it ate all your Cobras and Pit Vipers.

Not that harmless if you'll do stupid things for it, like try to import 14kgs to Georgia and risk life in prison or maybe worse in the Philippines.

#1....probably free service if you donate your body to science. Every medical school in Thailand needs body donations. Normally they'll use the body for a year for student interaction or for research and give you the ashes back for free in a year or two. If you don't want them back or you want them to dispose of them, they probably will. Check their websites for willed body program....Mahidol or Chula or a dozen other medical schools. If you want good karma give it to the worst or lowest ranked school, instead of these two as they probably have the most difficult times getting donations. You might also check at Wat Hua Lamphong and the Por Tek Tung Foundation. They might do low cost cremations.

I don't think he'll ever fly in this plane. It will take 3 years probably to convert it to AF1 standards with all the inflight fueling, electronics gear and all that is required, plus pilot and crew training. It would probably be done about the end of his term. To fly privately it's probably $200,000/flight hour. He won't pay that. His old 757 I think sat in New York in disrepair for about 3 years, because he didn't want to pay to fix it. From what I remember it needed a new engine and some high$ maintenance. This gift is like a white elephant. He has a lot of money, but probably not 747 prince/king kind of money. Also at 80 years old, he probably doesn't have a lot of flying time left. Trump flying in a private 747 would be NFL player type stupidity. How fast can you go broke? Now the idea of painting it in USA colors and parking it at a presidential library is interesting. That would probably create some interest in visiting. Regan has an old plane at his museum in Loma Linda and an old Beast limo.

She has a 19 year old college student living at Trump Tower and going to NYU in the Big Apple. Seems like a good and smart kid, but would you allow him to live there alone? She is there packing his lunchbox everyday and making sure he completes his study time. Nothing more, nothing less.

How good are your sales skills? Gyms are not about working out or even the equipment. It is about selling memberships. Most businesses are about selling. People get confused. They think all these people will just magically show up and want a membership. Maybe 2 a month do, but for the other 100 you need to get signed up and the 300 in January you need signed up to even pay your rent or buy new equipment or pay staff, you need to sell sell sell. Potentially you can hire this out, but they're probably never as good or interested as you are. People too often forget that most businesses are very little about the business and 99% of the success is how well you can sell. Show me almost every failing business, and I will show you sales solve everything. or almost everything.

Large groups buying condos is not a trend in North America. Condo market is in the basement. There are groups buying single family homes. Most of the apartment investment craze is over with higher interest rates that don't pencil out for investors. I can't imagine any of those groups buying in Thailand. Lose money on the exchange rate alone that can never catch up in rents or better operations. Lots of issues investing in Thai condos. One is there is plenty of land to build more. Fill one up, make a little money and build another next door or down the street. Thais like new, making resales difficult. Rents are super low so ROI is terrible. Are they good to buy and live in for long term stability. Maybe. Its a place to stay while studying. Maybe in a developing economy a good place to park money to protect it from inflation. Maybe better than gold which can be easily stolen. One huge issues is lack of maintenance as the buildings move forward in age. Go in almost any 20-30 year old Thai condo building and few feel like they've been well maintained....floors cracked, old elevators, nothing repaired or upgraded. That doesn't increase the value.

#1. Can they fill business class at full fares between LAX and BKK with no connecting traffic? That probably makes the flight profitable. If it is just filled to the brim with budget economy passengers, that usually doesn't make an airline money. #2. United will probably give them a great run for the money because they can collect all those connecting passengers from all over the country. #3. 14hour-16hour flight, so they would need 3 aircraft to service it. Do they have 3 A380s to unmothball, or 3 777s sitting around to put into service? When do the 787 deliveries start to happen? Maybe 2029 or 2030? #4. Are they profitable today...I see the press releases that have positive spin, but I never see net profit. Just EBITA or revenue, not bottom line. Are they cash flow positive yet? Many Asian airlines struggling and looks like traffic died in Feb/March on many big well know airlines. What happened at TG so far?

You gotta be a member of the secret 2-5am club. Maybe a double secret member.

Is the goal tariffs, or no tariffs?

Calculate the load.

Why would they be grandfathered? They were never legal to begin with. All these geniuses in Thailand and other countries always think they have a way to get around the law, when the law was pretty clear. Wait until they start really cracking down on units in "company" name with fake Thai nominee shareholders. Plenty of people will lose their homes. Happened in Mexico and Spain and probably other places too. Crackdowns won't be nice.

That guy should go to jail....maybe in El Salvador where that prison is safe and secure.