Terry Trippler
Terry Trippler
airline fly
We say we'll never fly that airline again, and the first sale, we're there. We're terrible.
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You are seeing things happening you never saw before, ... are now starting to take a page out of the success of low-cost carriers. Forget market share. If a plane or route is not making money, 'we will pull it.'
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This takes a relief off everybody. It's excellent news for Northwest Airlines, employees and the people of Michigan, Minnesota and Tennessee. It's not so good news for United, American and US Airways that when Northwest becomes lean and mean they will be a force to reckon with.
chance days friday next
Next Friday we'll have a much, much better idea of how things are going. I want to give AMFA 14 days because there's a chance AMFA may be right.
consumers perks push support
One would think that consumers would want to see someone in. But when push comes to shove, the consumers want their World Perks miles, and they will support Northwest.
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People are tired of Northwest and their labor problems. Customers' patience is at end. It's a fair assumption to make that if so many people in Detroit didn't have to rely on Northwest to fly, nobody would pay attention to them at all.
buy
Does Continental want to buy United? I don't know. I don't see it.
along key past
Continental did not go along in the past. The key is, will they go along this time? For the passenger, it's something they have been getting free, technically, that they shouldn't have been all this time.
hell
It would be a hell of an airline,
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Northwest seems to have a better grasp on what it's doing than Delta does. Delta raises fares and announces a sale at the same time. Northwest is making the adjustments they have to.
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Northwest made a wise move not to impose the contract. They don't want a strike and will go to the very end to make this happen.
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Northwest is going to dominate the Detroit-Boston route for the foreseeable future. Spirit wants a little piece of it. They'll probably get a piece of it.
northwest revenue wise
Northwest has made a very wise move. It's going to be a revenue generator.
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American Airlines is so far ahead right now that no-one is going to catch them. Southwest had 52 straight quarters of profit. It doesn't mean all airline stocks are bad. Some of these low cost airlines have a bright future.