Originally Posted by
Boomer
Not to mention the fact that when Delta makes $300 million, Delta gets to keep it. But when Delta pays RJET $300 million, RJET turns around and uses it to bail out Delta's competitors.
Or BECOME one of Delta's competitors, maybe with a wink wink from management seeing as how nicely our pull backs are coordinated with our "partner's" expansion.
Originally Posted by Byan Bedford, President of Republic Airlines Holdings
The second part of Republic's strategy is to re-launch services to prime business destinations. "It's hard to be the carrier of choice if you can't serve the top 35 out of 50 local O&D markets in your hometown marketplace," says Bedford. "Again, Midwest is not delivering on its consumer promise to be the carrier of choice because we don't fly where you want to go, because we can't afford it. Well now we can afford it."
Another key link in rebuilding Midwest's network is service from Milwaukee to Los Angeles. "It's been booking now for five weeks. It's the second best market the company's got, so it hasn't taken the community long to welcome reconnecting the network back. We'll increase that service to two a day in September when Delta pulls their one flight a day out of the market."