Incompentence Air

[arthompson]

Not a real fan of KS and the boys, Indy was doomed from the start because of the management team. Most of the rank and file I would be proud to work with at another carrier (some of them I currently do)

 

[Gillegan]

I flew on Independence Air a few months ago and I was impressed. They don't overbook, their overweight and rebooking charges are reasonable and you can take an earlier flight, space permitting with no charge. These are the kinds of things that folks say pisses them off about the airlines. Here is an airline that addresses those issues and they have a hard time. I agree with others that it's been the RJ's that have killed them. Those airplanes are the product of flawed logic. Not sure about the management team....there probably isn't an airline alive where the management isn't disparaged by the rank and file.

 

[skyaddict]

That the frontline employees, esp. the pilots and FAs but also including some of the good apples amongst the ramp and CSR personnel, have gone to extraordinary efforts is clear. While there were "meltdowns" due to ramper shortages on groundstop days etc., those were the same sort that occur at any carrier when it's hub is hammered, but the pilots and FAs genuinely went to extra efforts compared to any regional working for a big mommy or daddy's fee for departure. Unfortunately T&K definitely were way too cocky for their own good as regards the business model of using RJs for LCC ops, and their egos let them fall through on the one thing that might have worked- an alliance with Virgin. Indy's A-319s are far and away, in my view, the most beautiful commercial airline liveries out there in North America right now, bar none, but they will probably soon be getting new paint jobs I suspect, as I now concede that I don't see any viable plan to keep a core surviving.

 

[a319drvr]

It's been a real treat to operate the 'bus. All we can do is hope that a rabbit comes out of the hat soon. Until then, the challenge is to keep the spirits up, keep the passengers happy and hope for the best.

 

[Cobra]

Saying the Airbi makes money, but the RJ is losing seems entirely too simplistic. The RJ would no doubt partly provide feed for the bus, so lose the RJ, lose the feed.

Secondly, I have liitle doubt, that TED, SONG or jetBlue would be all over the Indy route map, if Indy went all Airbus. The route net work would be entirely too easy to overlap.

Hope Indy makes it, but I think slugging it out is the way to go, not to shrink into a tiny Airbi fleet.

It's very simple. You can't turn a profit with 50 seat RJs at LCC fares (any hopes of doing such is even more futile with current and future fuel prices). Even if the crew flew for free, the plane was filled, and you strapped a few extra passengers outside to the wing the flight would go ot and come back with a loss.

G

 

[rvsm410]

Ifly CRJ sitting at MCO??

I could not help but notice a CRJ200 sitting in front of the CAL Mx hangar for the past week...this is right next to the Airtran GO on the west side....

what is up with this aircraft, is it here for MX or some other downsizing reason?

Best of luck with you folks there...I hope the Airbus use in Flag Ops works for you...