Originally Posted by
AirWillie
I have no problem with that. Pulling the ladder from the person underneath you is the name of the game especially at the majors. They are responsible for the state of this industry although some may say it was inevitable when you have a 2 dollar product and sell it for 1. Point is just like I don't care about SharkyBn584 and hope that his company fails so that mine may profit, I wouldn't expect him to care much about mine. It's called the free market.
By the way I think what RAH is doing is a major gamble that may cost them a lot in the future considering it's a matter of time before they start competing with their contract carriers if they haven't already. And there is no way that they can win over Southwest, Airtran and the rest of them. Or when United, Delta, Airways start demanding that's its either for them or on their own. Maybe god really did speak to their CEO.
United, Delta, and USAirways don't care if Bedford competes with them. He's not some renegade outsider who might actually be a threat to their incestuous, price-fixing world. They made him. This is not personal to them. Republic will lose its contracts when someone else bids to do the same flying for a nickel cheaper, which will inevitably happen. The whipsaw is by design. Hardly by free-market.
Some of you are mistaking the lowest bidder for a contract to be subsidized by a trunk line as success. It's not the same. You're still just a tick on a dog. The players of yesterday are stagnant or fading now. Today's players have the same fate. Some other lowest bidder will get its brief moment in the sun next.
What is this thread about, new airplanes? What everyone should be thankful for is that they won't be delivered before seniority integration, or else the Frontier pilots would end up on the street.