One less competitor

[Rico]

Scratch one more East Coast Low Cost Competitor.

With Hooters Air announcing that they will only offer private charters for sports teams and other groups they have taken themselves out of the passenger market.

This will have a direct effect upon some of the markets US Airways served. If anything it also raises the bar THAT much higher for a new entrant to come in from now on.

Makes you wonder how the remaining small low cost carriers are doing too...

 

[operaations]

Scratch one more East Coast Low Cost Competitor.

With Hooters Air announcing that they will only offer private charters for sports teams and other groups they have taken themselves out of the passenger market.

This will have a direct effect upon some of the markets US Airways served. If anything it also raises the bar THAT much higher for a new entrant to come in from now on.

Makes you wonder how the remaining small low cost carriers are doing too...

if you consider Hooters Air a competitor you are in far worse shape than I thought

 

[Phantom Fixer]

if you consider Hooters Air a competitor you are in far worse shape than I thought

You need to re-think your comments friend...anybody that takes away a paying passenger away from you , especially in your own backyard is a competitor. Southeast , FlyI and Hooters all took away from the bottom line and drove fares downward in a number of markets.

 

[operaations]

wow thank god for Hootes going Belly Up US Airways will rise once again lol

 

[autofixer]

It is obvious that the fares that FLYI and Hooters were charging were unsustainable.

 

[Heinrich]

My grandmother always said "every little bit helps"

 

[Seatacus]

wow thank god for Hootes going Belly Up US Airways will rise once again lol

"belly up" would not be the words I was thinking of.

 

[AIRWOMAN]

"belly up" would not be the words I was thinking of.

Tango Uniform, perhaps??? :blush:

 

[EricLv2Fish]

Totally Insolvent Transportation System (TITS) UP

 

[careerfurloughee]

Totally Insolvent Transportation System (TITS) UP

BUSTED

 

[AIRWOMAN]

BUSTED

Too funny!!

I thought TITS was This Is The Spot. Saw that sign many years ago at a bluegrass festival. :blink:

Scratch one more East Coast Low Cost Competitor.

With Hooters Air announcing that they will only offer private charters for sports teams and other groups they have taken themselves out of the passenger market.

This will have a direct effect upon some of the markets US Airways served. If anything it also raises the bar THAT much higher for a new entrant to come in from now on.

Makes you wonder how the remaining small low cost carriers are doing too...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12070042/

 

[Rico]

Heck yeah I consider it a competitor, just like Trans Meridian and Southeasten were. Small airlines, but focused in a few of our markets means we take a loss where normally we would break even or make a little profit. Add that up across the system and you have a big loss. Getting cocky about small carriers is the same stupid mistake that the legacies made over and over again in the past. Remember only five years ago jetBlue had a handful of aircraft in a few of our markets... Need I say more?

My point was that the playing field has changed. No one can just slap together an airline anymore. The fact is that they need a LOT more startup financing, and they need to have a much smarter business plan. There exists fewer and fewer markets that a startup can exploit. While that is good for us on one hand, it also means that any startup that comes along from here on will have a lot more horsepower than the startups we have seen before. Branson's Virgin America and Ryan's (Ireland's Ryanair) Skybus are good examples of the "new" kind of startup. Skybus (America's Ryanair)

Anyways, I made the point sometime ago that the airline industry was likely to follow the example of the trucking industry. This is just another example of our industry following suit.

Guess what else happened in the trucking industry after costs were forced down...?

Consolidation.



Just some food for thought. B)

 

[Furloughedagain]

Quite a few of US Airways furloughed pilots and flight attendants found employment at Pace/Hooters.

 

[skd]

Maybe we can get their uniforms, I here they are selling them cheap..



Okay....that was just a JOKE....