Originally Posted by
ACEssXfer
He was the CCO. It absolutely was his fault. He was in charge of the route structure he certainly had a say on whether or not to park airplanes.
I forgot about his "we don't need a good inflight product our route is the product."
As far as AUS. The company was violating the contract. Period. They were running podunk regional routes in order to maintain minimum gate usage. So his decision to hub AUS in the first place was.........a failure. Along with everything else he did.
It was Seymour that parked the jets, and APA was in the right, but the law of unintended consequences has now allowed Delta to get their foot in the door in Austin, and in 20 years, we may regret that when AUS is a mega-hub for them.