Originally Posted by full of luv

I was including AA and UAL because it did curtail some of their domestic expansion plans over the past year as well. Maybe not to the extent of SWA, but it did trim their Domestic ASMs.

That in turn helped the whole industry turn record 3Q profits as people ponied up and bought remaining seats at a slight premium over what would have been offered.

My whole comment was that SWA will have to prove to someone (probably not a jury but at least BAs counsel) that it would have made MORE profit had the max been an amazing success. That’s going to be a challenge considering how much profit they made despite the MAXs actual disappointment.

Not flooding the market with extra capacity has helped the industry, even SWA make some nice profits.