Michael Boyd
Michael Boyd
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Today you have Southwest Airlines in a reactive mode opening up cities they probably would not have opened up.
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Frontier Airlines is already losing money. JetBlue and AirTran are on the edge, and Southwest, had it not hedged fuel, would be losing money. Anything with a wing has problems with today's fuel prices. But if oil had stayed where it was a year ago, like we thought it would, we'd be talking today about how profitable the airlines are today.
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It's very good to have a variety of airlines like Indianapolis does,
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Airlines live on cash, and the minute you stop flying the bills keep coming in but the money doesn't,
airlines cut cuts food services somewhere
Airlines have already cut the services they can cut, now cuts will have to come from somewhere else. The food is already nonexistent.
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To say that the '75 team would have probably given most major college teams a run would be selling them short.
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To rush into something wouldn't be prudent, ... It's going to take time to put maintenance programs together, labor contracts together.
issues number sure
At this point, the real issues are: Number one, making sure it comes out on time, and number two, there can't be any glitches in production.
aware certainly checking news
We are certainly aware of the news and we are checking the information.
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Bottom line? Unless you're a bankruptcy attorney, this isn't going to mean a thing to you.
With Allegiant, if it doesn't make it, they leave.
nasty
I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.
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If the situation runs smoothly for the next three or four days, there may be no incentive for the company to end the strike. If it doesn't run smoothly, they might be back at the table at some point.
advantage cheap drop fare folks
but there ain't a lot of folks who'll drop what they're doing to take advantage of a cheap fare in such a market.