Originally Posted by
Papoo
Hence I said 'most'.
My point stands in its entirety. The US legacies are an embarrassment. And an expensive one at that.
ALL of the competition across both oceans is leaps and bounds superior, and priced better.
If the aforementioned carriers screwed up as badly as the US carriers, JAL included, they wouldn't exist today. Perhaps the elimination of the legacies would have been a good thing in the long run - painful to start, but would have farmed the emergence of new, non-dinosaur carriers, which may actually be able to compete.
Crying bloody murder over this is hypocritical on many levels. This constant cherry picking of perceived unfairness is hysterical.
Whether it's employment costs, employment law, chapter 11, product, service, price, it's all just noise.
If you can't compete, accept it. Do a Delta, and adapt your model.
Funny you say the US legacies can't compete when, at the moment, they are the most profitable airlines in the world. That can change quickly, but for now that's the way it is. Long delayed product investments are being made, so time will tell if the service gap closes or not.
What you call crying over this boils down to wanting to avoid a race to the bottom, which you seem more than willing to embrace. If flying that 777 of yours for what tycoons like Mr. Kjos thinks you are worth is fine by you, then I'll just have to accept being put out to pasture eventually. Congratulations, you will have won. Just don't ever complain about it.