Originally Posted by
EA CO AS
I'm unsure how nearly 8% growth annual projected is a "ship without a rudder." And why get into the costly "arms race" of a maintaining dedicated sub-fleet chasing after premium transcons against companies like AA, UA, and DL that benefit from huge corporate agreements? The course AS is plotting isn't as high-yield on a per-customer basis, but it's a MUCH bigger market segment they're going after in transcons.
But part of that is keeping costs low to remain competitive when AA/DL/UA/B6 try to fight with fares that trash yields for everyone.
AS took a knee this past quarter due to the QX fiasco, definitely - but barring that, I doubt there'd be anywhere near the hand-wringing that appears to be going on right now. And lest we forget, PBP is STILL projecting a payout in the 7.5 to 8% range; it may seem low since we've been spoiled by record payouts of over 9% for the past 5 years, but it's still healthy.
Take this one milestone at a time and you'll see things improving. QX is already righting their ship. 12/31 is the last day for Elevate. Then SOC in January, and single PSS on 4/25/18. Along the way, you see the first Airbus leave the paint shop in AS livery, followed by everything in the fleet getting retrofitted into the new interiors.
It's going to be an interesting ride, and I think, a very rewarding one.
OMG. You are too funny. If you want to try and send marketing folks out to mitigate the bad press your pilots are putting out there and hurting your recruiting efforts, you should start with not quoting company email talking points. Perhaps report back to your overlords how unhappy we are and how dissapointed we are our managment group. No-one takes you seriously. Please stop embarrassing yourself and frankly the rest of us that are actually Air Group Pilots.
For God's sake, if you are going to pretend to be a pilot, at least try and talk like one.