Terry Trippler
Terry Trippler
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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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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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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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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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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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Does this guarantee Northwest Airlines will survive? No. But it puts it way over 90 percent.
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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.
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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.