Originally Posted by Slaphappy (Post 3040718)

whats up with all the new users with a series of numbers as scree names? I've counted 3 and they all post nonsense.

Originally Posted by senecacaptain (Post 3039878)

disagree with his assessments

Originally Posted by Slaphappy (Post 3040718)

whats up with all the new users with a series of numbers as scree names? I've counted 3 and they all post nonsense.

Originally Posted by sflpilot (Post 3040763)

This is uncharted territory for the industry and everyone wants to give their “educated” opinion on what will happen. It’s like the people that go to a nice restaurant and order an expensive bottle of wine and sit there swirling it around and smelling it like they are a sommelier. 99% of those people have no idea what they are looking at.

Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3039851)

The guy's an idiot, his analysis is based on perceptions of brand loyalty, total disregard for international exposure and financials including owned assets.

With just a little industry knowledge and SA, here's my take...



SWA is most likely to survive, worst case they would be last man standing if it came to that.

Big three will get bailed out, they may enter BK but I think the fed will prevent liquidation although that might even involve a surprising merger. Worst case one fails, then they save the other two.

AS/B6 about the same boat, AS financials are better, idiot is apparently not aware of that. Probably survive, maybe gain ground as the big three are distracted by sustained international downturn. Worst case, merger? If the fed saves the big three do they have to save # 5 & 6? Idiot says AS will be pushed out of west coast domestic market and be forced to retreat to Alaska... big three gonna be a little distracted bailing their international boat for market grabs :rolleyes:

ULCC/Leisure operators: At higher risk IMO due to exposure to low-income market and vacation market, as well as *possibly* being small enough to fail if push comes to shove. Worst case, mergers and maybe one or two failures. I think these guys are most exposed if there is a deep sustained downturn. I do not think that legacy customers will flock to ULCC for cheaper fares (legacies will be offering cheap fares for a good long time).

HAL: Deep do-do. I'd be surprised if they don't merge. Asia travel is done, and the locals clearly don't want mainlanders on their islands. Maybe bail out due to unique position, but I'd guess merger more likely.

That's my off-the-cuff SWAG, and may be missing important puzzle pieces.

Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 3040507)

I realize that others opinions will differ but I think that international travel will be the last to come back and 20-25% of business travel never will return.

Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3040791)

I disagree. Lot's of random journalists talking about how zoom will kill business travel, but JP Morgan did an analysis (quoted in Aviation Week recently) which concluded that business travel will not change fundamentally... this is a broken record that's been getting played during every economic crisis since email was invented.

Originally Posted by 303flyboy (Post 3040813)

IF the industry starts to slowly come back in the next few months people (business or leisure) will absolutely be very mindful how they spend their money. How many people filed for unemployment how many companies are bleeding ? Of course they will watch every single penny. SWA ULCCs JB wil get more traffic plus the way they are set up will make money with less people on their mostly single fleet highly fuel efficient planes.

in good times people who don’t fly much and don’t have much fly those carriers, in addition to people who just don’t feel like paying 200 dollars more for PHL - MCO for no reason. In bad times people who watch their wallet fly those carriers. JetBlue was about to go to Europe this year with the 321 and Frontier is the launch customer for the 321XLR.

I think (and hope) the big 3 will survive but it won’t be in their old form and shapes.

Frontier I believe has 15 months in cash but who knows they are privately owned. For all of our sakes I hope all airlines survive. If this lasts much longer non of us will. My glass is half full

edit : we are all in this together. Literally non of us are immune. So for all of us let’s hope the path to recovery starts soon