Vaughn Cordle Airlines Quotations

You watch. The first thing these airlines will do when they get on the other side of bankruptcy will be to announce exciting new growth opportunities. We'll be off to the races again and headed for another restructuring.

It was always a bad concept and never made sense. None of the big carriers would give up seat capacity. They matched them on every route. Even with their own bankruptcy problems, all three major airlines had more financial resources than tiny Independence.

It's offsetting all the good progress American and the other airlines are making on their non-fuel costs, specifically in labor.