General Lee
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Ultimately this will be good for Southwest. It will be harder for the legacies to feed from smaller markets that their cost structures won't support.
HUH? This will be good for us. We can get rid of more RJs that suck us dry. We need to bring more mainline flights back into the mix. Instead of having 10 daily RJs from Knoxville to ATL, try 4 DC9s (all owned outright, no leases). Guess what? The same number of seats allowed, and half the gas. We can funnel pax onto those flights, and compete in other cities with Airtran and their 717s. The RJs are the problem---do you see any at profitable Southwest, Jetblue, Allegiant, or Airtran? We need fewer of them around. Some city pairs can handle them, but at larger cities competing with Airtran, are at a loss.
Bye Bye---General Lee