12 ordspråk av George Hamlin
George Hamlin
Airlines have a market-share mentality. Competition is a very powerful force. For some airlines, it might make sense to take a short-term loss to get a long-term gain.
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Either one or more of the carriers will fail. That will eliminate some capacity, and of course when supply goes down, price goes up,
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Even as a large carrier, they've been able to continue that, which is truly impressive.
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If all you're doing is changing the financial structure of the company, you can count on one of two things: being back in Chapter 11 or being gone.
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It could be a way to signal the market that things are getting serious. I'd like to think they'd done better planning in terms of cash flow and the airline's operations. This would be a relatively new and troubling development.
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It's a very eclectic process. As much as it may seem to be true, airlines don't randomly select cities. They choose them very, very carefully.
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Sarasota's not the only one that's had that problem. It's very sensitive to a competing airport that's within a very easy drive.
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Tampa is always going to be in the picture, unfortunately.
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The industry is in the process of a radical restructuring. It is the bleakest time.
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There's a lot of pressure to reduce costs.
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There's the famous Southwest toilet paper race. Passengers pass the roll as fast as they can from front to back without breaking it.
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United certainly made a lot of cost reductions. But whether they really had a metamorphosis to compete without the help of a bankruptcy court remains to be seen.
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