Originally Posted by
DENpilot
If said theory was true, which I agree it is, we wouldn't be sending 319s and 320s to the desert to be scrapped when we can have them for dirt cheap. Like I said, this management team is not interested in those kinds of profits. They are laser focused on CASM. For example, look at our buy-on-board product. We are constantly out of stock on things like diet coke and pringles. We don't carry nearly the variety of what Spirit offers for their BOB. Why...? Because we have no front galley carts. BOB product doesn't count for CASM, but the miniscule amount of fuel savings from not having front galley carts helps Indigo's CASM and ultimate bottom line.
Trust me, they couldn't care less about growing us. They will do whatever suits their bottom line until we're sold off, which could include never taking delivery of our NEOs.
I lot of our old airplanes had bad lease deals with high monthly payments. They can replace old birds with new neos at lower lease payments, with much lower casm. You're right that they are laser focused on casm, absolutely. That's the whole point of the airline, operating cheaper than anyone else. What I think you don't see is that they can lower casm with a larger airline. Fixed costs (The GO, upper management salary, mtx hanger lease, etc.) stay the same as the fleet grows, resulting in a lower casm. They absolutely intended to grow the airline.
When indigo bought spirit, they had 30 airplanes, now they have 100. Business all want to grow, they just have to do it smartly. I believe nearly every older airplane will go away, and i believe we will take every airplane on order. We might not reach the 122 airplane fleet, but if we take every order, and let every old bid go, it brings us to over 100 airplanes.