AirTran Airways Reports All-Time Record May Traffic

[Kenney G]

I was curious and checked midwest from LA to LGA. $800. Airtran 254 webspecial. June 17th. They do need to raise the fares a bit.

 

[PCL_128]

I was curious and checked midwest from LA to LGA. $800. Airtran 254 webspecial. June 17th. They do need to raise the fares a bit.

And yet, guess which airline is doing better financially? Charging $800 on a couple of seats per flight doesn't do you much good if you have half the number of seats that everyone else does.

 

[gt1900]

Charging $800 doesn't do any good if people don't pay $800 for tickets. Remember, people still have to buy the tickets. BTW.. From what Ive heard is that AAI's plan is to fill up as many seats as possible and make money on the higher last minute fairs. That makes sense IMO. The goal is to fill up every available seat and charge the most money possible. Obviously since AAI is only running mid 70% load factors, they aren't charging too little. It would be one thing if they had a 100% load factor and were charging $50 for a round trip ticket. But charging $800 for a ticket from LA to LGA doesn't mean anything if the load factor is 25%. Remember guys, its about maximizing profit, supply and demand. This is simple economics stuff here. There is a point of diminishing returns where charging too much lowers your profit. Remember, airfairs are highly elastic. And right now there is a producer surplus (too many friggen seats). Charging $254 for a trip may be what it takes for AAI to maximize profit. None of us really have any idea. Just looking at a few ticket prices proves absolutly nothing...

 

[RIDETHELIGHTING]

Matter of fact I bought my mother in law a ticket on them round trip from Jax to Rdu for $240 including ALL taxes and fees!!!!! The next cheapest fare was Southwest at $370!! That is a significant difference. This is not the way to make money in my opinion.

Hey just wanted say thanks for helping us out with record increase in traffic. Now go have a little STFU

 

[Colonel Savage]

Hey just wanted say thanks for helping us out with record increase in traffic. Now go have a little STFU

Dude, that's still a customer your talkin' to. Take a little of your own advice.

 

[RIDETHELIGHTING]

cool dude I will

 

[Bavarian Chef]

Hey just wanted say thanks for helping us out with record increase in traffic. Now go have a little STFU

Come on now, you know better. The article didn't mention PRASM and CASM.

That's the bread and butter.

 

[BSkin]

I was curious and checked midwest from LA to LGA. $800. Airtran 254 webspecial. June 17th. They do need to raise the fares a bit.

Must be some great cookies!

 

[maxblast72]

Dude, that's still a customer your talkin' to. Take a little of your own advice.

The sad part is we could probably tell every customer to STFU as they walked off the airplane, and they would still book Airtran the next time if the price is $10 cheaper.

Price, on-time, and arrive with bags seem to be the only thing people care about nowadays. I guess that is why we got #1 in the quality rating. We do price, on-time, and arriving with bags pretty well at Airtran.

 

[Whataburger]

What about SHASHM and BLADASM?