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Is this thing on?
But come on, is it really necessary to add a "" or a "" to everything in order to indicate sarcasm?
BOS is an awesome market that DL has surrendered with the weakest of fights and even in times of billion dollar profits all around they still pretend its a much smaller market than it really is. JB, with the direct help of failed DL management decisions (and a little help from AA and USAir in that regards too) has handed a high volume, great yield, almost recession proof crown jewel to JB on a platinum platter and let them walk away with the Red Sox sponsorship just to rub salt into it. DL could absolutely own BOS with a little effort but would rather "make money" by outsourcing gates to Continental and giving a pretend "non revenue" code share partner ground handling priority as thanks for taking the entire west coast off our hands because they choose not to compete there either.
Originally Posted by gloopy
Thank you, I'll be here all week.Is this thing on?
But come on, is it really necessary to add a "" or a "" to everything in order to indicate sarcasm?
BOS is an awesome market that DL has surrendered with the weakest of fights and even in times of billion dollar profits all around they still pretend its a much smaller market than it really is. JB, with the direct help of failed DL management decisions (and a little help from AA and USAir in that regards too) has handed a high volume, great yield, almost recession proof crown jewel to JB on a platinum platter and let them walk away with the Red Sox sponsorship just to rub salt into it. DL could absolutely own BOS with a little effort but would rather "make money" by outsourcing gates to Continental and giving a pretend "non revenue" code share partner ground handling priority as thanks for taking the entire west coast off our hands because they choose not to compete there either.
I agree 100%. The only good thing Leo the CEO did was to build a new terminal in BOS...but then Delta ran away from it?!?
When I was a newb, (1985) Delta flew five L10-11's a day out of Boston to Orlando, all full, all the time. Also, full L10-11's BOS-PBI, FLL, MIA. in the 90's I remember flying FULL 767-300's BOS to YUL all summer, full 727's, then 757's BOS-BGR and PWM, all summer, taking kids up there for summer camps. And we flew 767's from BOS-SLC, and 757's from BOS-DFW, and BOS-TPA.
Right now, Delta flys 2 flights per day, BOS-MCO. One is an 88, the other an A320 or 737, depending on which day.
I ran into a Marketing guy once about 5 years back and asked him WHY did we get out of the Boston to Florida market. He said, "Those passengers are Low Yeild Leisure Travelers. They are familys going on vacation, they only buy the cheapest tickets, they don't buy full fare first class seats."
I replied, "You mean to tell me there are NO Business men trying to fly from Boston to Florida?"
He said, "Yeah, there might be a few, but they buy coach seats and use their frequent flyer miles to upgrade to F/C, there's no money in it."
I said, "You may want to tell Air Tran and Jet Blue about that."
I remember when we had 10 full 737's a day flying MCO-BOS on Express, then after Leo got rid of Express, we had 5 full Song 757's (199 seat configuration, no first class but free TV) flying MCO-BOS. Full all the time, and they got rid of it, said it wasn't making money... So who's fault is that??
Raise the Friggn'n ticket prices you IDOTS!