Jetblue sacks John Owen CFO

[AC560]

Not necessarily true. There are incremental costs associated with each passenger an airline handles. Your example is probably valid because the costs incurred to handle an additional ten passengers would probably be less than $550, but if the choice were between 50 pax at $200 a pop and 100 at $100 it would be far better to take fewer people willing to pay top dollar.

Airlines staff for the maximum capcity of the plane, if 1 person shows up or 300 show up you are going to have the same # of crew (defined by the FAA), ground crew, mechanics, gate agents, etc. More flights add huge incremental costs to an airlines, bigger planes/less flights make the $$$'s work much better.

I will address some of the other points brought up when I get a free moment. Nice to have a thread on the Majors Forum no less that debates some intersting points about the industry.

 

[elag777]

And that is the problem with the JB guys on this board.... JB has problems but you still get the spin... You can't get objective analysis for the JB guys themsleves...

It weakens the creditbility issue.....

JB guys on FI want to be so despertly seen as pilots of "one the best" places to work. But when they spin and defend it really only hurts themselves cause the rest wonder what the real deal is... what is really going on....

And the hits just keep on coming....

Well here it is ~~~o~~~ B6 is going Tango Uniform! are you OK with that spin! but it will be after all the rest. Now you don't have to wonder anymore, except perhaps how to use spell check!