Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
I think this is exactly whats happening. This is what XJT did after the CAL cuts. XJT mgmt grasped for straws to save face after CAL announced pulling the 69 planes and it ended up bad for XJT. Except republic is doing it on a bigger scale. I think they see the writing on the wall and know that flying is shifting back to the mainline carriers, just as Richard Anderson has said over and over. Republic is trying to put the cards in their hands instead of leaving them with DAL, UAL, USAIR, AA, CAL etc.
like everyone else has said, the next year should be very interesting.
I agree with this. DAL has said many times in the past that they want to reduce the number of DCI carriers flying for them. There will be a lot of blood letting in the near future. A lot of reshuffling and parking of RJs and Saabs. It already started at XJ with parking 10 Saabs. XJ will furlough 110 pilots starting this Fall. Comair has been squeezed beyond belief. Who's next? DAL looks poised to get rid of as many DCI carriers as they want. This sounds really bad and it is but in the long run, for all of us it will be for the best that DCIs are minimized and Majors are maximized. At least I hope that will be the case. Who knows what will be in the cards. Maybe Nostradamus knew.
Bedford has just poked a major beehive. Others have mentioned before that Bedford is now infringing on Major territories of DAL, SWA, CAL, US Airways, AirTran and UAL. None of them will stand by and let RAH eat away at their market share which is already down to a bare. DAL will be very aggressive in making their move. So will SWA. Both are predatory and perhaps SWA has been better at it in the domestic market up to this point since domestic is all they do.