Originally Posted by
hercretired
He should have kept the XLR orders and jumped on the PHL (huge Irish population) to Dublin market. At least then, he would have diversified his portfolio with some international customers (wait, international is important and lucrative? who woulda thought?) versus hanging his hat on the ULCC customer.
Again, back to Barry decision making..
Would the XLR made PHL to dublin? I know there's been some debate about the range they were advertising.
D Schurz one said in recurrent "No LCC has crossed the atlantic, and survived. Do we wanna be the first to try? With NBs?"
I always felt like he was one of the adults in the room. But, I could be wrong. Here we are.