Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Actually, Johnso, IMHO, bringing smaller jets to the company and getting giddy is shortsighted. Do we want to become a regional carrier or do we want to play on the big playground? I understand where you guys are coming from. You are a product of the regionals. Yes, let us absolutely recapture our scope. But, no, let us not get comfortable with settling for that. Again, growing small is not growing big. We should shoot for growing big.
It's not either or. Grow big - absolutely - grow small as well. It is not a zero sum proposition as some still would have you believe, and we have seen how well trading small for big works.
The only furlough protection that means anything is flowing to smaller jets on your own property.