Originally Posted by
Rightseat Ballast
Like southwest realized long ago, if you can't fill a decent sized airplane (737, E190), then that route isn't worth flying.
I agree. It's been proven over and over again yet these morons trying to run airlines (SkyBus, Express Jet, RAH) keep thinking they can somehow make it work. I think their egos are just to big to actually admit to themselves that in this hyper competitive market flying around 70 people for 80 bucks isn't going to make any money. Another thing that irritates me is that for years BB has been preaching about how much he thinks industry wide consolidation needs to happen and that there are too many competitors. Yet he goes off an buys an airline and tries to compete in a market that he has already stated is too saturated.
Happy Cinco de Mayo!