The Grass is not always Greener!
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Dog Wonder
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Why do you keep beating on our customers?
Dog Wonder
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What airline do you guys work for?
is this the article you are talking about?
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/b...ancatelli_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/b...ancatelli_x.htm
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IMO, his article sound much like LCC plan with the exception of a merger.
No vision, no plan...just exec bonuses and raises. The new U still has 4 Airbus types and 3 Boeing fleet types. Emb-190 are suppose to be ordered in the future as well.
I don't expect either UAUA or LCC to sustain their share pricing. After all, wall street is just sentiment and hype manipulations from analysts.
Fuel prices won't go below $60 in the next couple years, specifically with possible trouble looming in IRAN and an administration that thinks its job is to police the world. EXXON believes it owns the Fuel universe and is getting real comfy with soaring, history-breaking profits with its price gouging of the American people.
Airlines are bad investments. Even JetBlue is trading at approx $13 bucks a share. It either split or took a major tumble from years past of $40-45 price range.
No vision, no plan...just exec bonuses and raises. The new U still has 4 Airbus types and 3 Boeing fleet types. Emb-190 are suppose to be ordered in the future as well.
I don't expect either UAUA or LCC to sustain their share pricing. After all, wall street is just sentiment and hype manipulations from analysts.
Fuel prices won't go below $60 in the next couple years, specifically with possible trouble looming in IRAN and an administration that thinks its job is to police the world. EXXON believes it owns the Fuel universe and is getting real comfy with soaring, history-breaking profits with its price gouging of the American people.
Airlines are bad investments. Even JetBlue is trading at approx $13 bucks a share. It either split or took a major tumble from years past of $40-45 price range.
Both. A 3:2 split on Dec 27 accounts for some of it, but its 52 week high was $16.85 (split taken into account) and until today, when it closed at $13, it has been bouncing around about $4 off its $16.85 52 week high.
Tomorrow, B6 is expected to post a 4th quarter loss - fairly significant, is my prediction. Low costs don't mean nothin' if your fares are too low. The party is really over at B6. Maintenance costs continue to rise and now Neeleman has thrown away one major advantage (single fleet type) in his quest to bring live TV to 100 seat markets. My long term prediction is that Neeleman eventually admits that he should have left that 100 seat market to regional commuters and should have focused, instead, on his 156 seat markets.
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I never understood the 156 seat A-320 at B6. Unless you are running 96%+ load factors that extra FA (for being over 150 pax) seems contrary to running a low cost carrier.
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The "extra" F/A at JetBlue is required because that position restocks the snack basket with cookies/ crackers/blue corn tortilla chips. The other F/a's speak fluent English, the basket packer is "Manual" Labor
Me neither. Aviation-related websites (like this one) had lots of discussion about it when B6 removed the one row to make room for the onboard wheelchair and then trumpeted the extra room. Lots of people wondered why B6 (and UAL's TED, as well) would keep those six extra seats when removing them would enable both to fly with three FAs instead of four.
B6 does typically run 85%+ paid pax load factors, so maybe it fills one or more of those six seats often enough to pay that extra FA. Perhaps the same is true at TED, but I doubt it.
