Lost decade 2.0?
#101
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as to your point about competing with LCC’s, the article above makes it seem like AA is going to be using JetBlue like they did regional feed. If true, expect united and delta to hook up with LCC’s shortly as well. Could spell the end of regionals all together.
as to your point about competing with LCC’s, the article above makes it seem like AA is going to be using JetBlue like they did regional feed. If true, expect united and delta to hook up with LCC’s shortly as well. Could spell the end of regionals all together.
#102
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Pre-covid, in the only 2 markets in which the codeshare exists (NY/BOS), JB was 2.5x the size of AA at JFK and almost 2x as large in BOS in terms of passengers. This is more of a play to increase relevance for their network...same as AS on the west coast. If Vasu and Doug could have done it organically they would have...they stand to gain a lot more doing it that way.
#105
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/samuele.../#3a0bcb3e28a1
as to your point about competing with LCC’s, the article above makes it seem like AA is going to be using JetBlue like they did regional feed. If true, expect united and delta to hook up with LCC’s shortly as well. Could spell the end of regionals all together.
as to your point about competing with LCC’s, the article above makes it seem like AA is going to be using JetBlue like they did regional feed. If true, expect united and delta to hook up with LCC’s shortly as well. Could spell the end of regionals all together.
Problem is after JetBlue was LCC has a premium
product? I doubt Delta hooks up with spirit or frontier. AS just joined one world and has already been burned by Delta once who do they link up with?
#107
How long until international travel comes back, if ever? Almost seems the powers that be don’t want the masses roaming around the globe at will. I can see these travel quarantines taking ahold (Not just for COVID) and being with us for the foreseeable future.
#108
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I think that is a key difference as well. jetBlue has a nice product. Spirit, Allegiant and Frontier really don’t. Although the network carriers have tried hard to emulate that ‘steerage class’ product with basic economy.
#109
Once societies get somewhat accustomed to all of the social distancing/mitigation measures, and governments implement robust traveler screening and contact tracing programs it should open up some, or at least be allowed. But allowed is not the same as people buying tickets in droves. Probably need a vaccine(s) and some time to show that it's working... I'm optimistic that covid will just be a bad memory in a few years.
#110
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Once societies get somewhat accustomed to all of the social distancing/mitigation measures, and governments implement robust traveler screening and contact tracing programs it should open up some, or at least be allowed. But allowed is not the same as people buying tickets in droves. Probably need a vaccine(s) and some time to show that it's working... I'm optimistic that covid will just be a bad memory in a few years.
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