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06-06-2014, 05:26 PM

#21

GogglesPisano

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So, will we see pilots work the ticket counter and toss bags like in "the good ol' days?" How about offices for the executives?

06-06-2014, 06:31 PM

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Kaptain

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Curious how their certification application is going? More difficult in todays world that the early 80's when they were the sweetheart of the industry. Too bad they failed to stick to their original business model back then or they may still be around! Seems like the once hubs or PIT, CVG and CLE might have some market potential.... good luck to them.

06-06-2014, 07:09 PM

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blakman7

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Originally Posted by MaxPowers

Newport News was a great market for AirTran, and a pretty good overnight, as well.

Oh yes it was......nostalgic moment here. Bailey's seemed to bring out the best in all of us

06-07-2014, 06:05 AM

#24

maddogmax

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FYI, the original airline was People Express not Peoples! Like Delta Air Lines not Delta Airlines.

06-07-2014, 09:28 AM

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gloopy

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Originally Posted by Dejavu

I just read eastern is doing the same . 10 new orders of 737-800

Rich people never get tired of playing with airplanes. There will always be start ups that suck money out of the industry, and the vast majority of them will continue to liquidate as the model almost always guarantees. The dammage they do to the industry while they ride the churn is just the cost of doing business for everyone else I guess.

06-07-2014, 09:30 AM

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gloopy

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Originally Posted by Kaptain

Ha! Now that's funny stuff!

Those hubs you mentioned are still very well served relative to their size and market demand. Only a meglomaniac on an airport board would think that getting some MLM start up scheme to come in will restore the glory days of hourly flights to every dot on the map.

06-07-2014, 09:35 AM

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gloopy

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Originally Posted by ShyGuy

US airline majors to add capacity despite unit cost rises. Is "capacity discipline" history already? | CAPA - Centre for Aviation

No graphed trend continues forever. Legacies have culled a lot of capacity in the last few years. A small reinstatement of a tiny portion of the capacity recently reduced is in no way the same as the next wanna be LCC longevity reset machine wanting to barf hundreds of growth planes into the system. At DL much of the "capacity growth" is little more than an internal transfer from 50 seaters to 110 seaters. Likewise there is room for some international "growth" for DL that would still be capacity neutral in our JV balancing situation.

That article's author just seems like some Crackberry analcyst flipping out that YoY shrinkage isn't continuing for all eternity, which no growth or shrinkage trend vector can mathematically do anyway (unless you shrink out of existence I guess).