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. |
Either one or more of the carriers will fail. That will eliminate some capacity, and of course when supply goes down, price goes up, |
Even as a large carrier, they've been able to continue that, which is truly impressive. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Tampa is always going to be in the picture, unfortunately. |
The industry is in the process of a radical restructuring. It is the bleakest time. |
There's a lot of pressure to reduce costs. |
There's the famous Southwest toilet paper race. Passengers pass the roll as fast as they can from front to back without breaking it. |
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. |