Originally Posted by
ovrtake92
Do we really have a crap product? I think our reputation is worse than our current level of service. Every time I get sqeezed in the back of an American Airlines S80 or barked at by a rude CSA on United I can't help but think that all the airlines are a poor product. We just happen to be the cheapest usually. Management seems to be working hard to fix the bad reputation through solid advances in reliability and PR. I agree that low oil prices don't help us but that's just near term stuff. We're all playing the same game with the same price of oil. The key difference is that we aren't lowering ticket prices to compete as oil prices drop. All Spirit has to do is maintain during this period of low oil price and growth because when the tables turn, these massive oil related profits that the other airlines are enjoying will be turned off like a faucet while Spirit continues on with what it was doing all along; making cash money while BB and the gang wear gold chains and diamond crusted grills. NOW FOR OUR SHARE!!!
Agreed. Perhaps crap was not the best word, I should have used inferior.
Saying inferior or crap I'm not being negative, its just part of the model.
If everyone could put out a VA type product at our CASM they would.
I'm not saying the sky is falling or we are going out of business. My concern is that during the earnings call they are saying not to worry about negative RASM because our CASM is falling faster. At some point CASM will stop declining (new contract?) and we will have to figure out a way to increase revenue if oil remains low for an extended period.