AHHHHHH!!!! These prices aren't helping anything!
07-09-2008 | 03:36 PM
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Dude....for starters, I don't fly for a regional. And as for guys that MAY be there for 15 years, that is their choice. I for one couldn't do it. Sorry...good try though. And you're right, everyone should run a successful business based on advice from their CFI. You can be ****ed all you want, but the truth is it doesn't matter what business you are in(including the military) you do what it takes to make money and succeed. Hell, I'll be happy to be with my company for 5 years, that's more than some people at HP or Compaq. Bottom line, we all make choices and have to live them. In fact SWA is interviewing a bunch of regional guys today...perhaps they won't have to wait 15yrs after all.
07-09-2008 | 03:41 PM
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Of course, I know your right, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. The legacies have absolutely caused all of their own problems. Southwest has excellent marketing & has had yearly profits every year since the Ford administration , has never had a furlough, pays great wages and benefits & most importantly...has never gone bankrupt. Southwest is the most financially succesful airline in the history of the industry....I think they probably know what marketing works and what doesn't.
07-09-2008 | 04:43 PM
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We will then systematically go after cars and mopeds as a form of transportation till we get rid of them. Then we shall rule the world...
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07-09-2008 | 06:27 PM
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Do you still want to see people flying in 15 years when you are still at your regional making less money than a high school drop out does. I guess my flight instructor years ago was wrong when he told me at the completion of my CFI ride..."You have now intered a professional field, never charge less that what the job is worth."
07-09-2008 | 08:46 PM
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Prices
I guess that the point is that people will not pay more than $69 for a ticket. If the price was $369 the public would not go. As prices go up demand disappears. There is too much capacity in the sky.
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07-10-2008 | 03:48 AM
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