Originally Posted by copy

Couple things:
1) wasn’t the timing of starting and growing B6 nuts too? That timing seemed to work out well for them.

2) LCC model hasn’t run its course. Quite the opposite. It’s been growing like a weed and still is. They have recovered faster and shrunk less than legacies. Legacies have been trying to compete/adapt with things like basic economy because they have to, not because they want to. This is even more true now that the front of the plane isn’t paying the bills with biz travelers. And how exactly will other LCCs/ULCCs/majors be ruthless? Can’t exactly be ruthless when you’re paying to service massive amounts of debt, higher labor costs, and higher capital/lease costs. Breeze would welcome “ruthless” competition. That would accelerate bankruptcies. Breeze’s CASM will be lower than allegiant and frontier. Their break even load factor will be lower than anyone’s. They can turn a profit while others would be in the red. They also won’t be competing on any/many routes. Their route structure will be designed to minimize nonstop competition.

But yeah, pilot pay will suck. For a while. Generally that is a trade off for early seniority. Thousands have apps in knowing the rates. What’s old is new again.