Originally Posted by
zoooropa
You have to consider the "net" result. Costs are higher at ORD when compared to MDW but the revenue is also higher so the net number is better at ORD. Denver has high costs and some of the lowest yields in the system. That is a bad combination.
It has been said 1000 times but F9 proved one thing in 2008, Denver can't support three airlines. SWA isn't leaving, UAL is done cutting, that leaves F9 to find another place for a large percentage of their ops.
So how does this play out? A slow drawdown over the next 18 to 36 months? I mean there isn't, at current, anywhere else to put all these pilots.
I don't want to be naive - I get what's happening - I just want to get my head around what this might look like going forward. Do I plan my life based on message board rumor - well I was going to say no - but IT ISN'T LIKE THE COMPANY EVER TELLS YOU SQUAT. And as for the latest internal emails - they are so politically framed with carefully hedged doublespeak I don't know what to believe.
Disclaimer - I'm not the sharpest tool either.
I appeal to the Zoo's and Bolo's of this board. Draft an outline, your best guess as to what the next 3 years looks like. Or 5
And to the smart @$$ess out there... Here, I'll save you the trouble and say it for you... "What'd you think would happen Sulk, you brainiac? You're going to Trenton boy!!!!"
...actually I think those were Bolo's exact words to me the day after I got hired so I'm without excuse LOL!