Small and midsize communities can certainly be hurt, |
Small and midsize communities can certainly be hurt. |
Southwest has to expand aggressively over the next two to three years because they've got to spread out their costs in order to keep their fares down. They have high labor costs and in order to protect their costs they have to put out more product. |
That's just so many financial barnacles to stick onto a bankrupt company. They're going to get scraped off. |
That's where the growth is. |
The $17 billion (loss) is meaningless because it involves all sorts of accounting issues. |
The airline is showing signs of showing a pulse. What they're doing is going back to where their historic strength is. |
The alternative for Denver is Frontier. I put the grant in because I thought I had a pretty decent plan to get additional service to the West. In the past, United has been pretty nonchalant about wanting to add another flight to that market. |
The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel. |
The politicians see which way the wind is blowing. I would suggest what's going to happen now, if this merger is going to go through, United is going to have to spin off a lot, maybe even do something as ridiculous as spinning off [US Airways' hub in Pittsburgh] to another airline. |
Their plan didn't work after the first 30 days, but they refused to change it, |
They have a track record of putting out happy numbers. |
They have to recast what they're doing on the East Coast because it doesn't work any more, ... They have to shove more of their flights to feed their East to West traffic and less flights between North to South traffic. |
They were just too strong over the ball and made the most of every opportunity, whereas we struggled to get going all day, ... We're really proud of the boys but Terang just kicked the goals when they counted. |
They were trying to be a low-fare airline with high costs. |