One slight improvment; the Mainline A320's from BOS-JFK will make it easier for my Boston Homies to commute to the ER in JFK.

Yeahbut...where you gonna find a parking spot for that thing on Cleveland Ave?? :D

Could someone please explain to me again why there's a necessity to have a NYC A320 base. I thought the initial intent was to cover the shuttle flying and now it's going away.

Um, because Network said the 319/320 was going to be flying the shuttle? And uh, the 319/320 overnights sometimes. Did you know hotels are expensive for the company? And uh.. seemed like a good idea, kinda like the 777 base? :rolleyes:

it is a popular misconception. There are things the 88 cares about, like it's gate still occupied by someone else with no other gates around.

Marietta is not bad, close to Smyrna, actually I didn't mention Marietta because I think of it and Smyrna as so similar. Sometimes heavy traffic, but I actually meant north as in north of 285, where you would have to take 85 all the way or 85 to 285. Because then you have to go either through downtown or allll the way around. Marietta is nice because it is close to 285 on the west side so you don't have to take 85 through downtown or deal with that connector area up there.

If I don't hear it straight from a hot cheerleader chick then it doesn't register.

That is the magic of capacity restrictions. It also is the justification for Corporate flight departments. When I flew corporate all it took is a couple of these $1,000 fares to make taking our Sabre 65 a money saving proposition.t

Is the Norfolk area craziness due to the WN/FL mess...err...integration changes? If it's not a capacity issue I would think we would keep the mainline on both to add pressure in the area. I wonder if having the capacity is the issue:rolleyes:

Maybe it's just finding a place for a 50 seat contract or twelve....

Its also justification for the bloated LCC order books that plan on adding many hundreds of growth aircraft to the domestic system in the not too distant future. What we're doing is creating a very temporary dot.com era rebirth with yields but it won't last as others will grow into what we abandon or downsize and they'll do it with a much lower cost structure based on endless growth funded by our "capacity discipline" today driving long term yields lower than had we not used that strategy. Burning the furniture to heat the house by cannibalizing our own network for short term quarterly results.

When the lines intersect it will be interesting if we take our hoarded cash and wage a massive offensive and brow beat the LCC's hard (which we can do and we can win big time) or will we accept it as some new normal like we have in Boston and treat it like permanently yielded market share?