And also, X2 on how the hell does Southwest do it???
How the heck does southwest do it? They only seat 130 something in their planes, they do short legs, they have very well compensated employees who are at the top of their pay scales, they park their planes overnight, have older planes and still have a casm close to ours!
Critical Mass.
BTW:
735 (skeleton fleet mostly on Intra-TX flying) - Y122
733 - Y137 (marginal numbers now in fleet)
73C/73W - Y143
73H - Y175
This business model cries for shorter segments.
$50 oil cries for shorter segments when there is no capacity control. Business model has little to do with it.
What is crazy is that we have a very small fleet with a very inefficient network. Inefficient in terms of frequency of flights between stations. Yet we already have these figures. What will happen when they God forbid start to run an efficient airline? What will the margins be in that case?
The network is efficient from a revenue standpoint but not from an operational standpoint. The exact reverse of what SWAs is...they want to be where we are and are trying to change it which many do not notice because it is going at a sloths pace.