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Old 01-26-2008 | 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
Company A will look at your company and say "TSA will do it for this much, why won't you?". Of course, I'm oversimplifying but the concept is the same.
I'd be willing to bet that TSA isn't the cheapest out there, which is why there is no growth. I wonder if you put all of the numbers together if republic, skywest, expressjet and others would actually be cheaper in a lot of situations. Yeah, service and competence is better at these airlines, but how much do the majors care about it. There is always someone saying, "my experience with continental sucked, so from now on I'm flying delta." But at the same time there is someone saying "my experience at delta sucked, from on I'm flying continental". So service is important, but I bet the majors are more concerned about price. If we went back to summer 06 where TSA was trying to get the Continental contract, I'm sure CAL did think CHQ would offer a better product, but I bet the deciding factor was price. Just goes to show what TSA is. Bad quality, and I bet they can't even do bad quality cheaper then someone else can do better quality.
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