Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
My point was there was little room for flexibility. The market nich was so tight that with a 50 seat aircraft things were going to have to run perfect.
TD, I don't know of any independent airline that could reasonably build the kind of flexibility required to make a profit on $140/oil. Well, I take that back; Cape Air made money, but it's an entirely different niche working either established routes or EAS subsidized routes. For an upstart operation, forget about it. It's not realistic.