climbhappy
ex pat
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2002
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aisde from the remarks that do nothing but incense, there are simple truths about business and some stark realitites about this failed experiment:
1) at the end , greensboro traffic, their second focus city remianed unchanged last month from a year ago. about 85,000 pax. Diffenderfer swore they would increase GSO traffic by 150%. though only three months into it, the numbers weren't there.
2) you cannot be the "lowest cost provider in an industry where costs are rising. it makes no ecomomic or common sense
lesson: I would have never launched a business at the tail end of a boom cycle. the dot com bubble burst at the end of the 90's. this boom , made up of housing values has ended.
past data shows the airline industry will take 24 months to rebound from a bust.
3) the SX approach was so radical and unorthodox, though tried in europe, it may never have caught on even if oil wasn't so high.
in america, women still shave their underarms. so some things will never "catch on" over here.
BEST of all. Sx will help the industry, by being the tail end of a pricing strategy that isn't compatible with what the cost to provide the service add up to.
This shakeout will help by reducing capacity, increasing ticket prices which increase revenues. Industry consolidation has to take place and maybe this help pilot wages come up in the end, which is really what drew the ire of everyone in the first place when it came to skybus.
these guys aren't to be reviled , but maybe helped and told "now you know" best of luck!
1) at the end , greensboro traffic, their second focus city remianed unchanged last month from a year ago. about 85,000 pax. Diffenderfer swore they would increase GSO traffic by 150%. though only three months into it, the numbers weren't there.
2) you cannot be the "lowest cost provider in an industry where costs are rising. it makes no ecomomic or common sense
lesson: I would have never launched a business at the tail end of a boom cycle. the dot com bubble burst at the end of the 90's. this boom , made up of housing values has ended.
past data shows the airline industry will take 24 months to rebound from a bust.
3) the SX approach was so radical and unorthodox, though tried in europe, it may never have caught on even if oil wasn't so high.
in america, women still shave their underarms. so some things will never "catch on" over here.
BEST of all. Sx will help the industry, by being the tail end of a pricing strategy that isn't compatible with what the cost to provide the service add up to.
This shakeout will help by reducing capacity, increasing ticket prices which increase revenues. Industry consolidation has to take place and maybe this help pilot wages come up in the end, which is really what drew the ire of everyone in the first place when it came to skybus.
these guys aren't to be reviled , but maybe helped and told "now you know" best of luck!
