Michael Boyd
Michael Boyd
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If the situation runs smoothly for the next three or four days, there may be no incentive for the company to end the strike. If it doesn't run smoothly, they might be back at the table at some point.
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If the flight is tomorrow, and this afternoon you make the change, you can make that argument ... But if the flight is three weeks from now, that's a pretty weak argument.
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Southwest has to expand aggressively over the next two to three years because they've got to spread out their costs in order to keep their fares down. They have high labor costs and in order to protect their costs they have to put out more product.
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It was already fourth-and-long when Mr. Grinstein took over. The three reasons he wasn't able to avoid bankruptcy are fuel, fuel and fuel.
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Lansing is part of the solution to carriers like Northwest, ... Lansing can feed a lot of traffic through their system.
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Our fleet forecast projects that these manufacturers may not be able to build enough of these things fast enough. If they're anywhere near as advertised in terms of performance, it's going to be a stampede to buy them.
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Right now people who are flying are flying because they absolutely have to, ... This may dilute revenue more than add to it.
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The alternative for Denver is Frontier. I put the grant in because I thought I had a pretty decent plan to get additional service to the West. In the past, United has been pretty nonchalant about wanting to add another flight to that market.
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The $17 billion (loss) is meaningless because it involves all sorts of accounting issues.
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To say that the '75 team would have probably given most major college teams a run would be selling them short.
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To rush into something wouldn't be prudent, ... It's going to take time to put maintenance programs together, labor contracts together.
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We're going to have a nasty showdown among low-fare carriers.
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United filed for Chapter 11 and they're selling all their product. Chapter 11 is just a change in legal proceedings.
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United comes out of Chapter 11 with no significant advantages over its major competitors.