I wonder if any of the dellusional ME carriers with a billion fantasy widebodies on order will barf that capacity right back in just like Qatar is supposedly doing with Athens...with a bigger plane than we were before we cut service in the first place. Ouch.

This B school quarterly insanity has got to stop. In this industry you have to agressively and ruthlessly defend marketshare or you will be burried as you cannibalize your own capacity and your competitors pick you off on their terms. Whats happening in Athens is a Waterloo-ish microcosm for our failing capacity dicipline at any price strategy.

Route by route profitability is a great way to buff quarterly numbers but a horrible way to run an airline long term. We will pay dearly for our managers incompetence in the long run, in domestic and international markets alike. While sometimes route reductions and even elimination make sense long term, we are taking this way too far and will be worse off for it.