IF the industry starts to slowly come back in the next few months people (business or leisure) will absolutely be very mindful how they spend their money. How many people filed for unemployment how many companies are bleeding ? Of course they will watch every single penny. SWA ULCCs JB wil get more traffic plus the way they are set up will make money with less people on their mostly single fleet highly fuel efficient planes.

in good times people who don’t fly much and don’t have much fly those carriers, in addition to people who just don’t feel like paying 200 dollars more for PHL - MCO for no reason. In bad times people who watch their wallet fly those carriers. JetBlue was about to go to Europe this year with the 321 and Frontier is the launch customer for the 321XLR.

I think (and hope) the big 3 will survive but it won’t be in their old form and shapes.

Frontier I believe has 15 months in cash but who knows they are privately owned. For all of our sakes I hope all airlines survive. If this lasts much longer non of us will. My glass is half full

edit : we are all in this together. Literally non of us are immune. So for all of us let’s hope the path to recovery starts soon