Originally Posted by
John Pennekamp
I find it odd that Southwest is focusing its attention on killing legacy carriers like United when LCCs like Airtran, Virgin America, and Frontier are scratching at their back door.
Why do none of the LCCs compete with each other? It seems they intentionally avoid each others turf. Collusion?
I think SWest sees UAL as an easy target, but I'm not buying that snake oil just yet. Time will tell. We all have to worry about Skybust and Slut. As far as Swest going international, I'm not buying that either. Maybe Mexico and Canada or the Islands, but it would be a code share to Europe or Asia and they would certainly not crush that market. It is kind of ironic that Swest helped to depress domestic yields and has now fallen victom to the situation it helped to create. Go figure.
Tom