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That'd be nice, but fantasizing about ridiculously unrealistic business models isn't going to help anything. Deregulation is ancient history.
The unfortunate reality is that SWA has largely covered the markets which support 737 operations. What's left for them is international and small sub-737 towns. They can't take a 73 into Podunk Falls because the competion already uses RJs there...a 73 can't operate economically in a 50-70 seat market even with a SWA paint job. The only way to tap the vast RJ market is...with RJs.
Megadeth, you know better.
You guys who are planning your careers assuming that the airline industry will ever return to what it once was are kidding yourselves. Just look at the price of oil today. Even by conservative estimates oil supplies will dwindle dramatically over the next 20-30 years to the point where demand outpaces supply so significantly that no business model will sustain buying oil to fly airplanes with. No, I think this industry is in for some big changes in the short-term future. Remember US Airways bankruptcy exit plan which was based on a "generous estimate" of $55/barrel? Something will have to give, and I'm betting it's not ticket prices. I even heard a United exec say on tv a few nights ago that they are getting to the point where if they can't raise ticket prices they will have to start parking aircraft.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of a trend toward regional aircraft in the short-term because they burn less fuel. Probably an expansion of the large regional jets is coming - a/c like the EMB190 and that japanese one that is coming out, while the mainline carriers park their ageing fleets.
That'd be nice, but fantasizing about ridiculously unrealistic business models isn't going to help anything. Deregulation is ancient history.
The unfortunate reality is that SWA has largely covered the markets which support 737 operations. What's left for them is international and small sub-737 towns. They can't take a 73 into Podunk Falls because the competion already uses RJs there...a 73 can't operate economically in a 50-70 seat market even with a SWA paint job. The only way to tap the vast RJ market is...with RJs.
Megadeth, you know better.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of a trend toward regional aircraft in the short-term because they burn less fuel.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of a trend toward regional aircraft in the short-term because they burn less fuel.