Originally Posted by
Moose
Thanks for clarifying that your comment is just "the way you see it." That means it isn't necessarily based in reality or any type of logical reasoning. But I will give you a high five for amusing me! Alaska could care less about Delta except in regards to gate space in Seattle. Everything else is just an annoyance....like Delta going to Juneau or Sitka. You guys are a joke up there and you know it. You fly a small pool of instructor pilots on a barely capable, empty 757s and poach a few summer fisherman out of an enormous supply. Whoop-dee-doo. As for the rest, there is plenty of business to go around and Alaska has a loyal following that will keep them profitable. Their planes are stuffed. I don't know about your loads but as long as we are full, I don't care. You think you are a big deal because you are large due to a merger but you have much larger problems than the Eskimo. Emirates, Norwegian and all the other international airlines after your bread and butter. Maybe you should troll those forums because they really matter to your bottom line and job. RA wants Seattle to get an edge on the competition but you may be just too big and impersonal to make much of a dent with Alaska's customers. Maybe the extra gate space to be constructed will help Delta but your reputation in customer service and your CASM will ensure the Eskimo keeps going strong.
Interesting how you can mix truth and fiction in the same post.
Yes, there is plenty of business to go around, and there are plenty of examples of two airlines having strong operations in a hub, for the mutual benefit of airlines and passengers. We got a little exited when LUV came to the ATL. Then we did something you guys can't seem to manage: we moved on.
No, we're not too big an impersonal. Our culture is not very different from yours. If it helps you describe us in idiotic platitudes, and it makes you feel better, be my guest.
As far as your loads go, they're not steady. They're declining, but it's not as bad as feared, and it's not because of us. You're growing your airline about 4X GDP, which is unsustainable, and I bet you know it. You have a reckless gamble going, that you can grow at 12% per year, and no one will notice, just because you're extra special. You're the cancer, not the victim, when it comes to saturating markets. It's going to come to an end eventually. Delta has taken you on sooner than most, but eventually, it will rectify itself one way or another. What beautiful poetic irony that you would be irate about someone else growing in "your" market. Ain't it just a beotch meeting the kettle, pot?
You're also not immune to the threat of the ME3, although you'd be a target later in the game. Which makes you short-sighted.
No, we're not growing SEA because we want an edge in te competition, we're doing it because your management thinks they own SEA, and Alaska, and they expect everyone to pay tribute in your fiefdom, rather than reach lasting agreements to feed the international flying. This is quite arrogant, but it's good for pilots. We should be high-fiving each other, not dueling over Juno.
No, we don't think we're automatically "a big deal" in SEA, but of course we don't think SEA is reserved for you. We'll compete, and we'll adapt, and we'll do fine, just like you will.
"You're unsafe", "you're a joke in Juno"... The hystrionics are pathetic. Now, go iron out your panties, and cricket's, and get back to work.