Michael Boyd
Michael Boyd
contracts labor programs rush time
To rush into something wouldn't be prudent, ... It's going to take time to put maintenance programs together, labor contracts together.
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Northwest can survive if they have to go into bankruptcy, ... These labor unions have to take it upside the head. Their next job will be at the Wal-Mart.
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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.
achieved labor problem until
Delta's problem is not labor, it's debt. They have achieved labor cuts, and can achieve more because they have only two unions. But until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.
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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.
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.
airlines cities mode opened opening reactive today
Today you have Southwest Airlines in a reactive mode opening up cities they probably would not have opened up.
aware certainly checking news
We are certainly aware of the news and we are checking the information.
bankruptcy bottom mean unless
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.
either
But either way, it's going to be ugly.