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Robbie Burns’ Night four course Supper, Monday January 25th 2010

Ring in the New Year at the Whale & Ale - San Pedro, CA

First Thursday, January 7th at The Whale & Ale - San Pedro, CA

First Thursday, January 7^th. Two course set menu, $20
For January First Thursday evening, one month only, to entertain you on this Artwalk night, is AjazzamatazZ, an exquisite Jazz Trio combining the experience & talents of three excellent musicians: Cengis on piano, Mike on bass & Gene on drums. The trio has been creating music together since  early 2009, form 6:30 to 10pm.

The Christmas Carol - Warner Grand Theater - San Pedro CA

Enjoy a two course meal at The Whale & Ale on the same occasion that you experience a production by The Relevant Stage Theatre Company at Warner Grand Theatre for one low price! See The Christmas Carol from Dec. 22 to January 3 for only $40 - which includes your delicious meal & theatre ticket. Learn more about the shows at www.therelevantstage.com, & purchase your tickets from TRS online, or through The Whale & Ale, in person on your next visit. You may also call 1-800-838-3006 & conveniently order your TRS dinner/theatre tickets by phone. We ask that you call ahead for seating the day of the event, & arrive for dinner 2 hours before the event start time to allow us to serve you & get you to the theatre in time to see a great show!
Performances: 8pm Evening Shows on:
Tues.12/22, Wed.12/23, Sat.12/26, Sat. 1/02
2:30pm Matinées on: Thurs. 12/24, Sun.12/27 & Sun. 1/03
Warner Grand Theatre is at 478 W. 6^th Street, San Pedro, a short walk away (one block over) from The Whale & Ale

Press Release

Stratos Jet Charters, Inc. Announces “Strong” Financial Ranking

In a voluntary D & B audit, Stratos Jets proves strong financial health and stability.

Orlando, Florida; December 8, 2009: In today’s tough financial climate, it can be a challenge finding a stable company that can be trusted to do business with.

This week, Stratos Jet Charters, Inc., a private charter agent company, announced their new “strong” financial rating, achieved through a voluntary financial audit, conducted by financial experts at Dun & Bradstreet. Dun & Bradstreet (D & B) is the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight for businesses, and their database includes more than 140 million business records worldwide.

Overall, D & B experts determined Stratos Jets’ financial health and stability to be “strong,” indicating that the company is not likely to fail anytime soon and continuously pays its bills on time. To achieve this rating, the audit required Stratos Jets agents to supply D &B agents with contact information for multiple vendors they worked with in the past, so that the auditors could further investigate Stratos Jets’ financial history and determine payment timeliness and predictive risk factors. 

From the data generated, D & B agents were able to gauge Stratos Jets’ “D & B Paydex Score,” – a unique dollar-weighted numerical indicator of how a firm paid its bills over the past year – at a score of 80 of a possible 100, indicating that the company pays their bills “promptly” and within terms and it is above the industry median average of 78.

In addition, D & B experts measured Stratos Jets’ commercial credit score, a predictor of severe payment delinquency, or the likelihood that a company will pay its bills in a severely delinquent manner (90 days or more past terms), and placed Stratos Jets at the lowest possible score of 1 out of 5, lower than the average amount of businesses in D & B’s extensive database.

Joel Thomas, President of Stratos Jets, said that it was important for all companies to provide their clients with a sense of security and confidence that they are doing their business with the right people. Thomas said that he feels it his moral obligation to provide clients with tangible proof, such as a financial self-audit.

“We want our clients and vendors to know that they can trust our strong financial stability,” Mr. Thomas said. “We don’t expect them to just take our word for it either – that’s what’s this audit is for.” 

To learn more about Stratos Jets’ recent D & B financial audit and other ways the company is raising the bar in the corporate aviation world, visit their regularly updated Stratos Jets blog

Financial health, security and your next charter flight

Booking your next charter flight can be nerve-wracking. With so many different options, so many different prices and so many different charter agencies, how do you decide who to do business with?

At Stratos Jet Charters Inc., our main priority is to give our clients the best service at the best possible price. Our focus is not on making a profit, but building long-term relationships with our clients and protecting them from the less trust-worthy service providers with poor financial histories.

Keeping that in mind, we feel that the best way to prove this commitment to our clients is to provide them with solid evidence of our strong financial welfare. We want our clients to feel confident that the people they to do business with are financially strong and healthy. That’s why Stratos Jets voluntarily submitted our company to an audit by Dun & Bradstreet, the world’s leading source of commercial information and insight for businesses.

Stratos Jets proved in the recent audit that our company is a financially healthy one. Our overall financial standing was rated as “strong,” our D & B Paydex payment score (how quickly our bills are paid) was rated “prompt” and our commercial credit score (predictor of severe payment delinquency) was at the lowest score possible of “1.”

You might be asking yourself right now how a company’s financial stability affects your charter flight. The answer is simple – it affects everything. Perhaps, it’s better explained through an example.

As you may recall, a short time ago, a well-known jet card and charter brokerage firm (which will remain anonymous, out of respect to the business) nearly went out of business because of a bad decision, poor financial health and a down-turning economy with a lower demand for charter flights.

All of these factors combined could have led to the company’s near-demise but the most damaging factor was the firm’s decision to buy a new, separate charter company and attempt to merge the two into one.

What happened was fairly quickly after the merger, the newly formed charter company experienced cash-flow problems. Suddenly, there wasn’t enough money to pay vendors for their services and the company’s financial health suffered greatly as a result. The company cited the difficulties merging the two companies’ various accounting systems as the cause.

Had the company had the foresight to keep a closer eye on its financial well-being from the start, it’s possible that these problems would never have occurred. Charter flights would have run more smoothly and clients would have known that their business transactions were sound.

At Stratos Jets, we feel that every company should take the time to review its own financial standing and provide that information to its clients. Every client deserves to know what kind of business they’re dealing with.

After all, would you want to loan money to someone who had a tendency not to pay people back? Would you want to do business with a company that couldn’t pay their vendors for services?

With that being said, we invite our clients to review our recent D & B financial audit. We want our clients to feel confident that choosing Stratos Jets is the best choice. We also like to entreat other private jet charter agencies to do the same, and provide their clients with information from a financial self-audit.

Booking your next charter flight doesn’t have to be nerve-wracking. Not when you can trust in your company’s financial well-being 100 percent.

Joel Thomas – President, Stratos Jet Charters