Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
These are not comparable airlines.
NK is 80% larger than Braniff was when it closed its doors and Legend, seriously? Legend was flying retrofitted airplanes that were RJ sized and were competing for business travel only. They had 7 planes, and hardly a “major airline” as Lincoln was talking about.
The best comp for an airline that had a fleet size close to NK, when it closed shop, is PanAm.
The point is, NK is not a small airline and you have to go back 43 years to find a “not a small airline” just going away.
TWA is a semi comparable for NK. It’s much smaller than NK is currently, but it had a large order book. Nevertheless, TWAs downfall took 20 years.
I am not sure what Halons point is. In the other thread he is arguing about how great Spirit is, and how it has an industry leading contract, in this thread he is trying to argue that Spirit is going to dissolve? In my mind those statements both have about the same amount of truth to then, (not much).