Terry Trippler
Terry Trippler
bus charge continue costs prices t
Those $29 fares were too low. You don' t charge those kind of prices and continue to operate. The bus even costs more.
forget happening market page plane pull route saw seeing starting success
You are seeing things happening you never saw before, ... are now starting to take a page out of the success of low-cost carriers. Forget market share. If a plane or route is not making money, 'we will pull it.'
experience figure foolish people situation tough
We'd be foolish to say there hasn't been (an impact). This is a very tough situation to try to figure out. I know from experience some people are booking away.
chance days friday next
Next Friday we'll have a much, much better idea of how things are going. I want to give AMFA 14 days because there's a chance AMFA may be right.
airlines guarantee northwest puts
Does this guarantee Northwest Airlines will survive? No. But it puts it way over 90 percent.
adjust air bet continue detroit fewer northwest numbers others passengers planes record year
It won't be a record year in 2006 in Detroit as Northwest and others continue to adjust their capacity. The planes that are in the air will be packed, but you can bet the passengers numbers will be down because of fewer flights.
bleed brain cannot chapter continue delta experience flights hurt loss next oil punch red several time trust
They cannot continue to bleed red ink. Delta is going to get hurt a lot by this. Not just the oil prices, but the loss of flights they will experience over the next several days. It could be the one-two punch that makes the brain trust at Delta say it's time to go into Chapter 11 reorganization.
airline average difficult hard joe
It's hard for us to fathom. It's difficult for the airline employees. It's difficult for the average Joe consumer.
airline future true
This really could be the airline of the future - a true hybrid.
looked rearview united
United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.
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Using yield management, you don't have to raise fares to raise revenues, you just make people buy the more expensive fare class. Now we'd have a better chance of playing with the gold bars at Fort Knox than finding out if or how Delta is doing this. ... It's hard in this case to say whether Delta is doing this or raising fares outright.
amount bring tremendous
We're just scratching the surface. I think 2006 is going to bring a tremendous amount of changes.
airline charged checking
Where I think the controversy will be, is when the first airline announces you will be charged for checking bags.
definitely management power shifted
I think the power has definitely shifted to management and I think it is going to be this way for many years to come.