I think their goal is to gouge wherever they can and push the margins as high as they can until someone blinks. And nobody is blinking. They're all just matching. And if someone blinks, yeah here comes the 757 to flood the market with seats until the route is a money loser. Sure SWA isn't going to push our buttons on AUS-ATL knowing we could sour the route.

That's just imho. I do think freight matters though. I did JFK-Gatwick in a 752 in 08 and they mentioned we'd be ceasing service soon because there wasn't any cargo. I don't know if cargo was really the reason but I'm sure if there had been cargo we wouldn't have been in a 752. I mean big is better for you and I but they're not going big until they can justify it and they just can't really justify more than 34 744/777s. BA can justify 107 of them.

But it's the CAL way of doing things that we bought. What size jet do you need? Okay, we'll go two sizes smaller. Drives us all nuts but if you want on you'll pay and it's taken a decade but i think they're there. And between HVCs having their tickets bought for them and corporate contracts, I bet they're not worried about the one time guy running over to another airline. They're probably too inconsistent or rare to cater to anyways.

I do see a lot of routes where they are charging $1000/rt on a CR2 and getting away with it. Which is why I think they want the CRJ-900 so very badly because now they can add a few more seats, but not too many, and cater to the HVC paying that much. It's why I question the notion that we won dropping from 600+ RJs to 450. I wouldn't be surprised if the company would drop it to 300, if all 300 were CRJ-900s. And what about all of those other routes? Less frequency or cut them out completely if all they can support is a CR2. I think they were clear, we do not want CR2s anymore, we want CR9s. I think this modus operandi is why.

That's my hunch. Nothing more.

It's not how we're going to do it at Spacklair. Once I get my President position reinstated.