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Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob (Post 396801)

The whole point is to remove the seats from the market, not replace them with other aircraft. In order for this industry to survive, as a whole, there needs to be a 20% to 25% reduction of available seats. That means when one carrier removes seats, no one else rushes in to add them back in. Unfortunately, this also equates to several more carriers closing their doors. Definitely dark days ahead for all.

The idea of removing seats from the market is to help boost the price of the seats left. Let's face it, there are more passengers today than ever before. If the airlines would grow a nut and raise the ticket prices, they could maybe survive this downturn.

I agree....how the hell can they have 80% load factors...and STILL lose money???

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Originally Posted by cfii2007 (Post 397228)

Good point....the majors need to focus more on service, rather than nickel and diming the passenger for extra baggage.

The majority of passengers are much more interested in schedule, price, and getting there on time with their luggage than service. While folks may gawk at the "a la carte" pricing, it actually makes sense. If you've got one guy who WANTS an aisle seat, make them pay for it. Otherwise buy a ticket and sit where there is a seat. I kinda like how SWA is doing it - you buy a ticket to get on the flight, if you want a specific seat pay more.

Same with baggage. People pack too much already. I don't agree with charging for the first suitcase however. I'm hoping they'll drop it soon.

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Originally Posted by fosters (Post 397387)

Same with baggage. People pack too much already. I don't agree with charging for the first suitcase however. I'm hoping they'll drop it soon.

Neither do I, and I hope so too.

Since the airlines obviously can't enforce the 1 carry on and 1 personal item rule, they should INSTEAD charge for EVERY piece of carry on baggage that goes over that rule. There would be MORE revenue garnered. Imagine how easy it would now be to JS when you get on last and are hard pressed to find an overhead space for your bag.

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Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 397179)

Nobody cares that SKW is not union, except for a few regional pilots who think alpa's failings are SKW's fault :rolleyes:

The Alaska CA that asked me for my ALPA card when I asked to ride with him to work last week might have cared... I don't know.

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Originally Posted by dojetdriver (Post 397267)

If you have been keeping up, the proposed buyout by SKW of a unionized carrier has been stopped (for now) by scope language. The loss of jobs (if any) and displacements (if any) at XJT has been stopped for now, and will more than likely be minimized, again, if there are any due to scope language that was negotiated by a unionized pilot group. If it would have gone through, you do know that about 700 XJT pilots would be on the street, right? I asked you that before in another post and you didn't answer. If you (or anybody else) thinks that XJT would have been operated status quo after the buyout, sorry, you are mistaken. If you need evidence of what I mean, take a look the next time you see a CRJ with an ASA end number on it but has the SkyWest logo on the nose, using the SkyWest callsign, being flown by SkyWest pilots.

It's hard for alot of people to realize that the ExpressJet pilots stoped the sale of XJT to SKYW... Most of them don't understand how the contract (in iron clad language) says that if any holding company buys XJT all the pilots of all airlines held by the holding company must be on one list and under the same contract. Most of them think SKYW could some how buy XJT and then get around this, even though they are operating under no statutes that would let them "bend" the rules.

I guess most guys aren't used to seeing an RJ pilot group with merger scope so bulletproof.

Well here comes the cockroach Mesa with some spare ERJ's. Ornstein will make some cheap ass deal for United to take the Delta planes and settle with Delta out of court for some $. This s%#t happened after 9/11 and here we go again. Hopefully oil will keep dropping like it is and this all can be avoided.

I think JO has gone to the "I have the cheapest airline" well way to many times and it is starting to dry up.

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Originally Posted by ChinsFive (Post 397434)

The Alaska CA that asked me for my ALPA card when I asked to ride with him to work last week might have cared... I don't know.

Never happened to me during four years of weekly commutes. Some guys check the scab list of course.

As a mesa guy, I got my butt chewed by a CAL CA once. He actually suggested that I get a job at SKW instead.

I have had one or two DAL guys who wanted to educate me on the union, but they were nice about it.

I have also had a lot of mainline guys tell me that SKW is better off without alpa...and these guys WERE alpa.

There are a lot of different sentiments out there.

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Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 397701)

what??? no way. are you saying that, in the real world, people have DIFFERENT opinons about things? that we aren't stuck saying what other people say because we're told to? say it isn't so! i thought, by reading this board, that we're all robots???

UAX is a rather profitable arm of UAL as a whole. Makes sense to do more of whats actually making you money in this industry rather than what is bleeding you out.