Also Google United Airlines predatory pricing. That's worth the read as well.
Do you understand what predatory pricing is as it applies to the airline industry? It's when a large carrier allegedly charges fares below their costs in order to drive out low cost competitors. Why do airlines risk participating in that type of activity? Because they know the damage an entrenched low cost carrier, like Virgin America, can do when they have 100 airplanes instead of 28.
In that frame, what is exactly is your point? That you are saving the industry from evil airlines like American, United, Delta, etc.? Gee, thanks mvedepo but we were all already "saved" by JetBlue, Airtran, Frontier, etc., the last time around. You saw how well that worked out.
crxpilot-
Thanks for posing some links where UAL was the
victim of fare wars. And certainly you're not arguing that UAL and the other major airlines exist to massively undercut the competition on just about every route they fly using discount airline labor to subsidze their bottom line as Virgin America does?
And nowhere did I say Virgin America "invented" fare wars. I don't know if you've noticed the airline industry lately, but it seems that, at least for now, the industry has collectively come to its senses. It seems as if over the past couple of years the industry got some religion and decided that fare wars and irrational capacity growth are good for no one. Well, almost everyone got religion, as you saw by my Google example. Type in "united airlines fare wars" and then type in "Virgin America fare wars" without the quotes. Do you see my point?
Rather than going round and round with a group of VA pilots trying to rationalize their existence, I'll leave it at this: The industry doesn't need the damage VA is doing to the industry with low fares and trashy yields on the city pairs VA is flying and will be flying in the future. The piloting profession doesn't need yet another airline using discount airline pilots to subsidize its bottom line. I'm done.
