Up to 80 Bombardier C Series aircraft for RAH

[BILL LUMBERG]

I'll bet Delta sells out on scope again and lets these guy fly all of their narrow body flights in the future.

Your sorry A$$ got a shiny jet job because of us gving up the scope....your welcome!!!!

 

[zman]

Jj

What do you mean someday. Southwest has already run Airtran out of BWI and MCO. MKE is just around the corner. I guess Airtran will have to move all those planes to the Caribbean. No Southwest competition there unless you count Volaris.

Obviously by your post you have no idea about Airtran, we have actually grew our BWI and MCO hubs. Our management has horrible as they can be with labor isn't afraid to compete with SWA. As for MKE our management said they will not pull out and will continue to grow just as aggressively as they have been. Its more like when SWA and Airtran start doing their price wars other airlines usually get caught in the cross fire.

 

[ATLplt]

ZMAN,

Methinks Max had a smidgen of sarcasm in his post....just sayin.

 

[Whataburger]

I'm thinking this could be trouble for Frontier and their AirBuses?

 

[SF340Guy]

Not a single one of these planes will operate for Republic. AirTran will destroy the place long before deliveries even start.

http://www.rjet.com/destinations.html

http://www.airtran.com/route-map/city_information.aspx?nav_id=18

I've flown nothing but branded flights for the last 2 months. Loads have been 66% or better on most flights, our CASMs are lower, and everyone else is subsidizing us, at least until 2017 (or a US or UAL bankruptcy, whichever comes first). If AirTran "destroys" us, it is gonna be a slow death, thats for sure.

 

[maxblast72]

http://www.rjet.com/destinations.html

http://www.airtran.com/route-map/city_information.aspx?nav_id=18

I've flown nothing but branded flights for the last 2 months. Loads have been 66% or better on most flights, our CASMs are lower, and everyone else is subsidizing us, at least until 2017 (or a US or UAL bankruptcy, whichever comes first). If AirTran "destroys" us, it is gonna be a slow death, thats for sure.

You might want to check your CASM data. For Q4 2009, Airtran's CASM was 9.87 cents/ASM. Republic just reported last week their Q4 2009 branded flying only CASM was 10.61 cents/ASM.

Airtran also has Skywest flying flights for them. Skywest is eating all the startup costs and taking all the risk on these flights to the smaller markets as it is a revenue sharing deal and not a traditional fixed fee per departure contract. I would say Airtran and Skywest have alot more cash on hand and can survive a fare war much better than Republic can. Time will tell.