Originally Posted by
Andy
I haven't bothered playing with the numbers but I'm sure SK will, including factoring in the cost to retrain UAL pilots. In addition, it's a matter of how easy it will be for United to contractually reduce outsourcing. This is all speculation on my part; good for you for doing an initial numbers crunch.
Cost per seat mile may not matter as much as cost to operate each flight. I wouldn't expect any flight - either RJ or mainline - to be profitable for some time; I'm not sure why you or anyone would think that RJ flights are anywhere close to breakeven for mainline carriers. I also expect flight frequency of all city pairs to be reduced - that's both mainline and RJ cities.
No airline is going to be spared from this carnage.
yeah I have very little clue about this, and it’s clearly more than a bit pointless to try to guess what the company has already gamed out a few thousand ways with as many variables on their supercomputers. Time to ride the carousel...
"Lot of pressure. You've gotta rise above it. You've got to harness in the good energy, block out the bad. Harness... energy... block... bad. Feel the flow, feel it. It's circular. Its like a carousel-- you pay the quarter, you get on the horse. It goes up and down and around. Circular... circle. With the music, the flow. All good things."