Terry Trippler
Terry Trippler
advance book bought hard mainly patient people pushing tickets willing
Right now people are willing to be patient mainly because most of them already bought their tickets. But if this drags on, it's hard for me to see people pushing each other out of the way to book advance tickets on Northwest.
bars buy case chance delta expensive fare finding fort gold hard people playing raise raising using whether yield
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.
best cold gets hard
Who gets the best deal? You know, there is no hard cold result.
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.
becomes employees excellent force good lean mean minnesota news northwest people reckon relief takes
This takes a relief off everybody. It's excellent news for Northwest Airlines, employees and the people of Michigan, Minnesota and Tennessee. It's not so good news for United, American and US Airways that when Northwest becomes lean and mean they will be a force to reckon with.
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.
call ready
You have to give it to Northwest. They're flying, AMFA's not working, ... I'm not ready to call it yet, but, boy, it's getting close.
airline fly
We say we'll never fly that airline again, and the first sale, we're there. We're terrible.
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.
fly fuel kidding
If they think they can fly through this (high fuel costs) they're kidding themselves.
consumers perks push support
One would think that consumers would want to see someone in. But when push comes to shove, the consumers want their World Perks miles, and they will support Northwest.
company foolish gets hurts people
I would be foolish to say there aren't people who are booking away because of the rhetoric. As it gets louder, it hurts the company more.
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.