Terry Trippler
Terry Trippler
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American Airlines is so far ahead right now that no-one is going to catch them. Southwest had 52 straight quarters of profit. It doesn't mean all airline stocks are bad. Some of these low cost airlines have a bright future.
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Does this guarantee Northwest Airlines will survive? No. But it puts it way over 90 percent.
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Airlines are realizing they can't keep selling tickets for a loss.
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Airlines are not a social service industry. Everyone expects the airlines to take a financial hit then criticizes them when they don't make money.
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I think all of the airlines will feel this. It's a little more than a blip, but New Orleans and Gulfport alone is not going to put Delta into bankruptcy. I think $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.
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I think all of the airlines will feel this (and) ... $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.
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I do expect to see the other legacy airlines match the United increase or file an increase formula of their own. Over the Labor Day weekend, I expect to see the airlines jockey for position but by ... Sept. 6, they will probably all be on the same page.
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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.
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Where I think the controversy will be, is when the first airline announces you will be charged for checking bags.
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United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.
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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.
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.
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.