Originally Posted by
Poopchute701
With The Southwest announcement today and dirt cheap airfare, how can Hawaiian survive in this environment. RT tickets below $200 from West Coast and $60 RT interisland. Would a pilot there jump ship or wait for a merger to happen?
Once the "wanna get away" fares are sold out (and the initial introductory offers are for just a couple days so far) the other class fares are in line or MORE than what Hawaiian fares are...
Anyone who didn't think SWA was going to offer ridiculously low prices initially either hasn't been in the industry very long, or hasn't followed much of what is going on.
IMO what this does, and given our huge stock drop today, is makes us a cheaper takeover target. Any of us here for any length of time knows we have been rumored to be merged/bought out by just about every airline out there.. (UA, JB, DL, AK, VA, AA, ALgnt, SWA)
Let the rumors fly, all this means to me is more aimless chatter on 123.45 until SWA gets the hint that nobody wants to hear about their layovers etc.