US back to Daytona Beach, FL

[Coffee_Tea_Or_Me]

BWI is a great airport with nice facilities. US should have capitalized on BWI's potential and expanded internationally there. BWI is just as close to downtown DC as is IAD.

 

[SegmentKing]

US was too busy trying to beat CALite, with their penny fares.

remember their GSO hub? 🙂

 

[Coffee_Tea_Or_Me]

US was too busy trying to beat CALite, with their penny fares.

remember their GSO hub? 🙂

Yes. If an airline with good, strong management like Continental cannot make a lowfare subsidiary work, it shows it is a bad idea. Not sure why United continues with Ted. It doesn't make much sense -- they pay the crews the same, offer the same service -- they could get much better aircraft utilization by recoverting those 320s back to the mainline configuration and livery.

After 9-11, I always thought US should have kept Metrojet and implemented a C scale wage for the workers. I also thought they should have kept the F-100 and requalified it with 2 FAs. After 9-11 and during BK 1, I was looking for anyway to keep jobs.

 

[FutureUScapt]

Still can't book them on the website, even though yesterday's press release claims you can. <_<

Oddly enough, you can list for the flights on theHub but you still aren't able to buy a ticket. Go figure <_<

 

[wasone]

Well I guess we'll see the usual DAB crowd in CLT when Bike Week comes around. Ya know the ones....gals with huge teeters and Jack Daniels t-shirts hangin out all over and guys with half a strand of hair pulled back into their brades. Did I just describe my daddy? 😱 I have family just outside of DAB so it will be nice to have the ability to nonrev there though as mentioned flights were usually full, full, full.

Yes you're right, Long haired, fat bellied,snaggled tooth,beer drinking ones who love bikes and bring their husbands with them! Becareful of my x!!

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

Yes. If an airline with good, strong management like Continental cannot make a lowfare subsidiary work, it shows it is a bad idea.

I believe COLite was operating pre Gordon B. When CO got the competent management CO Lite was discontinued ASAP.

After 9-11, I always thought US should have kept Metrojet and implemented a C scale wage for the workers.

Aren't you contradicting yourslef?
"If an airline with good, strong management like Continental cannot make a lowfare subsidiary work, it shows it is a bad idea."
C-scale? What scale would you consider your wages now?

 

[madders]

Wholly sub Piedmont will run the station

 

[YVINTERN]

Does Piedmont have a TDY program for it's Agents? I must imagine they do...Working TDY in DAB would be fun 😉

 

[dasher]

It's nice of US to add in a new city and expand the market(s) even though it's Saturday only but I bet the reason for growth is to put aircrafts on profitable routes.

These pathetic ERAU kids need more real world airline experience...so who's doing the ground/airport staffing? US or Piedmont? or DGA

PDT will run the station. FT/PT positions posted today on the Piedmont company site. www.piedmont-airlines.net

 

[BoeingBoy]

I guess old US figured they better match WN since at that time they were invading BWI.

US was too busy trying to beat CALite, with their penny fares.

That's basically it - if they hadn't matched the lower fares offered by the likes of WN and CalLite, the planes probably would NOT have been "full, full, full". Of course, that leaves open the question of whether less full airplanes with higher fares would have been more profitable (or less unprofitable) - a question that none of us can answer.

Jim

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

That's basically it - if they hadn't matched the lower fares offered by the likes of WN and CalLite, the planes probably would NOT have been "full, full, full". Of course, that leaves open the question of whether less full airplanes with higher fares would have been more profitable (or less unprofitable) - a question that none of us can answer.

Jim

Pick your poison.

 

[BoeingBoy]

Pick your poison.

The proverbial Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of any airline with lower cost competition.....

Jim

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

The proverbial Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of any airline with lower cost competition.....

Jim

Well said.

 

[Coffee_Tea_Or_Me]

I believe COLite was operating pre Gordon B. When CO got the competent management CO Lite was discontinued ASAP.



Aren't you contradicting yourslef?
"If an airline with good, strong management like Continental cannot make a lowfare subsidiary work, it shows it is a bad idea."
C-scale? What scale would you consider your wages now?

Hindsight is, obviously, 20-20. I said AT THE TIME I believed that -- when I was seeing thousands of fellow FAs furloughed at once, I was simply thinking of ways to save jobs and keep my friends flying.

FA wages now across the industry are abysmal and could be considered a D- scale.