Steenland? Huh? I think he is now on the board, not in management anymore. But, you KNEW that....your expertise is overwhelming... Talk about pompous---at least know what you are talking about.
And, we are going to try to smash Airtran, but not wipe it away. We know the stakes, and the ex NWA guys have done a better job keeping the LCCs at bay. They now pretty much run the boat here (even though a Delta exec now runs NWA until SOC). Regardless, I will still do my new favorite route (Forteleza and Recife, Brazil) and ENJOY it. Bye now.
Bye Bye--General Lee
General, are you truly boneheaded enough to believe that a board seat is less powerful than a management role-especially with Steenland effectively running the board? The board members freaking hire/fire the management "team." Steenland has 4 of his boys on the board (not to mention Anderson.) You really think you can out-run that idiot and his board?
-Damn, you really are not very bright, sir.
P.S.-The threat SWA poses to DAL is far greater than AirTran ever has posed. Once agin, for slow learners like Gen Lee: SWA has a much better scale than DAL. They are better-sized to be profitable while offering lower fares. Part of the reason is that they have no expensive international routes in their total cost structure (which are turning into money-losing black holes, PDQ.) (Are you starting to question DAL's logic of dumping 40% of their flying in the international basket now?) Still not smart enough to see this one coming?
ATL passengers will jump on a SWA plane in a N.Y. second and fly to pretty much anywhere and everywhere in the country they choose (SWA has a kick-ass route structure these days.) Everyone will jump at the chance to go and see Grandma on SWA for $58 each way and stick it to the big airline that has charged $780 for the same trip all these years. This will be the demise of your beloved airline Gen, you can count on it.
DAL should be shoring AirTran up any way they can think of.
-If you still doubt this logic, I suggest you pull up a profit/loss statement for both SWA and DAL over the past couple of decades and put your little ferrett brain to work trying to figure out which airline has made truckloads of money vs. which airline lost many, many times more money than it made over the same period and left their poor investors with useless T.P. for stock.
-Just get back to me on that one, pompus sub commander toolpenguin!
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