Originally Posted by
Big E 757
I hope my comments didn’t sound biased or condescending. I think we can all thrive, but it won’t all be easy and smooth sailing. I feel like the “leaders” at Spirit and Frontier try to rally and motivate the troops by saying “We are taking the fight to the enemy! We are going to kick their asses at their own game, in their own hubs! But the smarter play is to continue where you’ve been the most successful, which is growing where we ain’t.
I got the opposite vibe from the higher ups at Spirit. Most of the time when we announce a new route or cities, there’s never any mention who we are competing against. It’s mostly “This is what we are doing, and that’s it” It’s how it was made out to be on one of the investor calls.
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We don’t really care what they are doing,” Spirit CEO Robert Fornaro said Oct. 25 on an earnings conference call. “It’s just the marketplace adjusting and adapting. The key thing is, ultimately, how many seats do you sell at a certain price?”
https://skift.com/2018/10/29/why-low...economy-fares/