United to ground 64 more 737's
06-04-2008, 10:29 AM
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Regarding Joe K's coronation announcement...his latest stint at Midwest is conspicuously omitted. Word is that he packed his stuff and slunk away in the middle of the night-no letter, no goodbye, not even flowers for his secretary. Any Midwest folks have intel on that?
06-04-2008, 01:47 PM
#43
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You are right. Until the fuel hedge advantage goes away SWA will probably outright crush or at least slow bleed to death any competition. However with the way UAL competes even if they had the same fuel costs as SWA they wouldn't make anywhere near the same profits.
Folks do not get me wrong, I do not want to see UAL fail (I have way too many friends over there).
Biff
06-04-2008, 02:44 PM
#45
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06-04-2008, 06:05 PM
#47
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I wish this were true. Annoucement regarding the acceleration of A/C "parkings" and the accompanying job reductions coming very soon.
06-04-2008, 08:51 PM
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No mainline, no need for express. It's funny that this cursed industry keeps repeating itself.
When a mainline carrier cuts it's flying by such a drastic amount, express is always billed as the saving force that will try to maintain the market share onthe route. Express does do the flying for a few months until pax loads drop off when they figure out that a mainline jet isn't on the route... it's a Saab or an RJ.
Watch Express take the fall next.
06-05-2008, 03:50 AM
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I think that this is one hell of a coincidence. And now today CAL announced a ton of cuts as well.
First I was guessing that Jet Blue was going to be bough. With Lufthansa buying a stake in Jet Blue a few months ago, it seemed to fit together yesterday. Both founding member of the Star Alliance and all. It would be easy for them to Front the money to UAL and get the deal dome quite quickly. Now with CAL cutting capacity, it makes me wonder if they are the other player with UAL. Either way, no airline just cuts 100 jets in six months unless something is up.
First I was guessing that Jet Blue was going to be bough. With Lufthansa buying a stake in Jet Blue a few months ago, it seemed to fit together yesterday. Both founding member of the Star Alliance and all. It would be easy for them to Front the money to UAL and get the deal dome quite quickly. Now with CAL cutting capacity, it makes me wonder if they are the other player with UAL. Either way, no airline just cuts 100 jets in six months unless something is up.
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