Mike Boyd
Mike Boyd
airline industry letting tolerating
The airline industry is tolerating this and letting it go,
air areas cost problems revenue severe unlike
US Air has still got some severe revenue problems, ... Unlike say Northwest, who only had one or two areas of cost problems . . . US Air has a lot of them.
airline biggest charters experience money objective
The objective should be to make money and survive, not to be the biggest airline on the planet. With the low-fare market, they can make money. And with charters, no one has more experience with charters than ATA.
airline blood cash run
In the airline business, cash is like blood - you run out, you die.
airport
If the (Melbourne) airport didn't do this, they'd be remiss.
airline global operate
You can't operate a global airline like that,
iceberg sound
That scraping sound may not be an iceberg after all,
pay
Their pay won't be what it used to be.
altogether book people ticket tickets
To do this is nickel-and-diming. People will end up bypassing the skycap altogether and going to the ticket counter, or they'll book tickets on another airline.
advantage pay people security smoke speed
There's no advantage to this at any airport. It doesn't speed anything up and people would pay $80 for the same security they get now. There's no better security. It's just a lot of smoke and mirrors.
screaming yelling
There will be screaming and yelling and gnashing of teeth, but at the end of the day it will probably get approved. They know what's at stake.
bottom company normal
This is not like a normal negotiation - the company set the bottom line, and that was it.
carriers cheap costs full low service taking
Southwest is taking on two entrenched carriers that have low costs and a full service product, ... And it is not a cheap airport.
defensive good job minutes taking ten
Ten minutes and we didn't get anything. That hurt. They did a good job of taking us out of our offense, and we did a good job of taking them out of theirs. It was an old-fashioned defensive struggle.