Originally Posted by
shrsailplanes
If Frontier raises prices, it’s not just the tickets that go up. People won’t pay if they know the only reason it’s more expensive is due to a new pilot contract. What we get paid now is way more than many of our pax.
Frontier will have to become not crappy in order to maintain their customers and I don’t think they are too excited to do that. Being not crappy costs money.
75% of the time when someone tells me about an upcoming trip they have planned and I ask which airline they are flying on, they don't even know. People literally don't even know which airline they are flying on half the time. When we secure our new contract, 99.99% of our customers won't know about it.
The thing is, every other airline has had their costs go up too. We have a huge cost advantage and we will retain a huge cost advantage even after we sign a new contract. The ULCC business model has always been to be able to undercut the competition by at least 40%. We still still be able to do that.