SWA drops other shoe?

[lowecur]

Looks like Gary is strongly considering hitting the brakes on growth. This will mean.....as new planes come onboard......older ones will be sold on the backside. Sounds like he is being pressured to get a handle on things since the downgrade last week. I look for growth forcast to be reduced to single digits in the near future. Another, I told you so....by lowecur.

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/artic...6-05_15-59-07_N05278618&type=comktNews&rpc=44

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[328dude]

*yawn*

 

[jparks]

328,
your avatar is so funny!

 

[ironspud]

I still think the easties should have been stapled.

 

[SWA/FO]

I look for growth forcast to be reduced to single digits in the near future.

Growth is already in the single digits you tool. 8% is a single digit. :cartman:

 

[fugghedabowdit]

Nothing new here. Gary said months ago that if revenue was still weak into the third quarter, growth would slow.

 

[Lear70]

Growth is already in the single digits you tool. 8% is a single digit. :cartman:

ROFLMFAO!!!

I don't care WHO you are... that's funny.

 

[lowecur]

Growth is already in the single digits you drill 8% is a single digit. :cartman:

In the famous words of Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f do you think you're talking to?

Testy, aren't we? Must have hit a nerve. Lets take it down to 0%.....one 737G in the front door and one 733 out the back. As the 15% margin forecast will lag, then Gary will take growth to 0%.

The problem with this scenerio is the Gordon Bethune fixation that SWA will fall on it's face without a sustainable growth of 10% per year. Ouch!

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[Skaff]

lowecur,
Why did you change his quote from "you tool" to "you drill"?

 

[ivauir]

Looks like Gary is strongly considering hitting the brakes on growth. This will mean.....as new planes come onboard......And hasn't your favorite airline been selling airplanes for quite some time now? older ones will be sold on the backside. Sounds like he is being pressured to get a handle on things since the downgrade last week. I look for growth forcast to be reduced to single digits in the near future. The drop from 8% to single digits will really hurt, Another, I told you so....by lowecur. It is not an I told you so yet ... and by my count it would be your first.

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/artic...6-05_15-59-07_N05278618&type=comktNews&rpc=44

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Has anyone noticed that SWA is currently negotiating a pilot contract? I wonder how the head shed could get the pilots to lower their expectations?

BTW I'm not saying there is no way we will slow growth, everything is on the table. GK is discussing this with the same language he describes going international and assigned seats. Stagnation would stink, but we could handle it better than any other LCC.