Originally Posted by johnso29

What's your argument when Delta or any other hub and spoke airline makes more money then SWA? Who is making the poor decisions then?

Then Delta has a better business plan at that time. It doesn't mean they are completely different business' like people want to believe. They both still do the same thing minus/plus first class


I see. So how do you intend to serve JFK-TLV or JFK-ACC with a 737? And Delta is taking deliveries of MD90's and B737's. Both types we already have.

That's just a different destination. Yes you'll need a different airplane but that doesn't change what both are doing. People like to use that and say it costs the majors differently to do that. Sure it does but shouldn't those ticket prices cover that? If they can't support it, then that's ridiculous to keep doing it. If it cost more to fly to NYC than Witchita and one does it over the other then it doesn't mean it's a different business.

And yet they are adding the 717 so another whole set of training and other costs rather than just getting more 737's. Yet they are still doing the same thing as Southwest with all of those airplanes. Nothings different except the same thing, First Class.

So international should pay for itself, but domestic shouldn't? It's called route management. If it's profitable, you keep it. If not, bye-bye. It doesn't matter if it's domestic or not.

Correct so they are doing the same thing just to different destinations. Same thing except.....

They really don't. The SWA operation is different on many levels. Also, Delta seems to be making money just fine. So your poor management argument isn't really holding water.