Terry Trippler
Terry Trippler
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People are tired of Northwest and their labor problems. Customers' patience is at end. It's a fair assumption to make that if so many people in Detroit didn't have to rely on Northwest to fly, nobody would pay attention to them at all.
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If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.
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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.
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Does this guarantee Northwest Airlines will survive? No. But it puts it way over 90 percent.
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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.
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Northwest seems to have a better grasp on what it's doing than Delta does. Delta raises fares and announces a sale at the same time. Northwest is making the adjustments they have to.
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Northwest made a wise move not to impose the contract. They don't want a strike and will go to the very end to make this happen.
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Northwest is going to dominate the Detroit-Boston route for the foreseeable future. Spirit wants a little piece of it. They'll probably get a piece of it.
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Northwest has made a very wise move. It's going to be a revenue generator.
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It would be a hell of an airline,
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Does Continental want to buy United? I don't know. I don't see it.
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Continental did not go along in the past. The key is, will they go along this time? For the passenger, it's something they have been getting free, technically, that they shouldn't have been all this time.
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We say we'll never fly that airline again, and the first sale, we're there. We're terrible.
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We have clients who are very finicky about their seats. I think they'll pay that extra $15.