Originally Posted by
buzzpat
I highly doubt that DAL is going to "in house" transpo. The logistics involved with the world's largest airline doing their own shuttle service would probably outweigh the logistics involved with the hundreds of airplanes and tens of thousands of aircrew we have operating all around the globe. In fact, I know the owners of the service in MCO. They have a recently renewed contract with DAL.
Those van companies make a killing so maybe there are cost savings that would make it worth the hassle. A few years back JetBlue was paying something like $700,000 for shuttle service in MCO. A local JetBlue checkairman did the math and showed the company they could buy three shuttles, hire the drivers, pay all the insurance and other costs involved, and do it for $300,000. They didn't want to save $400,000 back then so the guy did it himself and got the bid to do it for $500,000 saving JetBlue $200,000 and putting $200,000 per year in his pocket.
If it really costs that much money for the limo services then it might be worth the cost to have a limo operation in house.