Originally Posted by
ElCaribe
So those people are all going to fly on Breeze? They need more than that specific genres to be popular. I’m not saying Breeze doesn’t have the economic odds to give them the low overhead to ramp up, but we’re seeing 1970’s level traffic right now and all the airlines are fighting for pax with record low fares. This is not 2001, or 2008. It’s much worse and much different. Personally I don’t think Neelman (Breeze) will be AS successful as other times.
I believe customers will be more willing to try a new brand that promises to be nice to them, yes. It's all recovery dependent, of course. But smaller and more nimble is a huge competive advantage for next year if the recovery happens fast. Breeze will launch right before a hopefully decent summer. The legacies have all made their educated guesses for next summer, if they're right, they'll be adequately staffed, if they go into an understaffed situation with furloughed pilots, they will be forced to give up market share and that's where breeze will have an open hunting season. Remember breeze was modeled to be the "forgotten" airport airline, so now they have that plus big airport opportunities.. I think the odds are very favorable to them to be a big success.