Michael
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How would you like to be a business owner, thinking everything is looking up, you've landed that big airline contract and the money should start rolling in anyday now..unless your in Arizona...and your airline contract was with northwest...
NWA bankruptcy 'stiffs' Arizona hotels out of $1M, paper says
NWA bankruptcy 'stiffs' Arizona hotels out of $1M, paper says
Northwest's bankruptcy filing forced it to skip payments due to some of the hotels it used to house 500 mechanics who were training to replace Northwest Airlines mechanics ahead of last August's strike. Now, at least three Tucson hotels say they've been stuck with more than $1 million in unpaid bills, according to the Arizona Daily Star of Tucson. "I've been dumped by girlfriends and taken a lot of other hits, but this one really, really hurt," says John Cousins, general manager of the Smuggler's Inn -– one of the affected hotels. "I lost a lot of sleep over this." Roger Golden, general manager of the Hotel Arizona, is also peeved by the turn of events. Not only did the room payments not come through, but he says full rooms meant extra costs for things like supplies and utilities. "Not only did our property have higher costs than we would have had, but at the time, we were affiliated with Radisson, so we had to pay franchise fees based on revenue that we never got," Golden says. "And their business (Northwest) displaced other business."
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