Originally Posted by
satchip
You are right but SWA is trying to become a nation wide player not just the regional player they are now. You see them penetrating more and more of the top market cities. Here in Texas, SWA rules. NYC, not so much. You see their business model evolving from small under served airport markets to secondary airports in major markets now to high revenue/volume traffic airports. I am glad we are upgrading LGA. Hopefully we can excise the brown and orange tumor before it grows. (no offense SWA guys, we LUV ya!)
We are different companies with different business models. Yes we are huge and fly everywhere in the world. But don't discount the largest domestic carrier. Every butt that flies on SWA is revenue that we lost. That is the name of the game, my friend.
I am not arguing that at all. I just don't think it is a fair comparison to give equal weighting to DAL/SWA. They are 2 completely different animals. They provide nothing near what DAL does. Not even close. They are a bus service. It is what it is. Keep them in check, and don't worry too much about them. They have nowhere to really grow as all the markets they serve are pretty much full. Now... they HAVE to start playing with us at LGA among others, and that screws their model. It kills their efficiency.
Originally Posted by
satchip
Oh, and Alabama has 13. Peyton is .500 in big games. And you have a man crush on Tebow.
.500 is a pretty good average.. but that Tebow thing... well... THAT's just plain mean.
