Originally Posted by
Jack Bauer
Those who fail to learn from history.....
Yeah it's great they are tooting their horns about not fighting for market share at the expensive of yields blah blah blah. Will we look back in 10 years with yet another management team and ask why were we so dumb as to cede more hubs and territory. LAX which was OWNED by Western Airlines ring a bell anyone? Now we have a tricky situation trying to get milk at a discount rate from the likes of Alaska and others in the Northwest. Bet the current management team wishes we still owned LAX. Food for thought.
Its like they don't think anyone out there will ever notice that the LCC collective with many many many hundreds of growth airframes on order are licking their chops with nationwide route maps they are counting on poaching from the legacies like its 2002 all over again. They are out gunned and out matched, but their ace in the hole is them betting we will cull capacity forever and gift it to them as they keep taking orders to facilitate their growth. Then when they are big enough maybe we will code share with them because they're so big. On the bright side at least we are rapidly collecting underpants on the way to mad profit.