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On 11/4/2002 6:28:20 PM Mod Status wrote:
I never did see how the RJs were going to save the company. Other airlines have them and they are loosing money. U is about ten years behind. It is too late for the RJ to save us.
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Mod Status,
Sadly to say, I have to agree with you on this one.
U is setting records in the DOT standings for on time performance..and we are setting internal records for completion factors regarding International Flights...but yet and still we are failing.
Load factors slightly less than 67% ..are simply not cutting it...and who's to say what prices those 67% are paying to be flying with us?
Would RJ's have an immediate impact? Maybe?..but most likely not!
U's entire problem is the need for an immediate impact..We aren't doing it in regard to selling seats..so we are reduced to lessoning our frequency of flights..or mainline service period.
This inturn becomes the precieved need to reduce the human element for an attempt to show an immediate reduction in our operating costs.
RJ's are so far from the radar screen now..it's almost pointless to keep harping on them. U will not make it out of BK in time to even place an order...If we don't stop vacating our markets...and handing them to other carriers on a silver platter.
Not providing service to this place or that..will only continue to alienate us , with those we use to call our customers...B6 and WN and FL are benefiting from what we are not offering in many areas. DL and AA are doing thier level best to beat us in ourBread and Butter locations of LGA and DCA too!
I'm beginning to wonder if someone hasn't found a self-serving deal by allowing us to collapse even further?...and eventually collapse completely?