SWA, PHL and JBLU "Hot Flash"

[General Lee]

SWA/FO,

It might take awhile to get rid of all the legacy carriers now that the economy is coming back----remember that the Legacy carriers also fly INTL ops and they are usually very profitable in good times. Also, some Legacy carriers---like Delta---have put in a defensive measure--Song---that might sting some LCCs. In better economic times, everybody wins. And, Jetblue and Southwest will eventually duke it out as they grow bigger---and that won't be easy on either of them. En-----joy!

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[FlyBoeingJets]

I'd say the LCC's are not going to be going at it until all the Lagacy Carriers are gone. An LCC fighting an LCC is a war! An LCC picking on a Lagacy Carrier now thats easy, there is so much to pick on.

You may be right but I think the era of LCCs concentrating solely on the low hanging fruit of Legacy carrier routes is coming to an end. The Legacy carriers will continue to feel the sting but will have their bottom lines cushioned by an improving economy. The LCC inside a Legacy carrier will also save a little cash. Not much but some. I personally think the Legacy carriers that survive will have most domestic ops in their Song or Starfish type divisions. That is up the road a bit (2 years??)

More importantly I wonder how SW, JB, and Airtran can buy so many new A/C and not bump into each other. If you don't think that is so, how many new aircraft do you think it would take? (No sarcasm, I would really like to know)

I may be underestimating the effect of the contraction occuring or soon to occur at AA, USAir, and UAL (and to a much lesser extent DAL). AAs parking of 75 aircraft with no loss in seat capacity will be amazing.

On second thought, I have no idea what will happen next year and '05. Someone enlighten me....please

 

[FLB717]

Among the big 4 you have nearly 2000 large aircraft and they bump into each other all day (hopefuly not the same point in space and time) and it does not seem to be a problem so I dont thaink LCC's will have a large issue.

 

[skykid]

From Boyd's silly article:

Some of the usual lightweight analysts will spout that it's an attack on US Airways. Forget it, US is just a bystander caught in what will become an increasingly nasty firefight between WN and jetBlue.

-- So, now we see that this guy is arrogant in addition to spouting nonsense to a third grade audience. For this guy to call anybody else a lightweight is incredible to me. So Southwest mgt considers JetBlue when developing strategy? Duh, thanks for telling me. I thought the reason they were so successful is because they operate in a vacuum and only consider one competitor at a time. To say U is a bystander is a typical Boyd lightweight remark. He probably gets most of his ideas from this board!