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On 4/24/2003 11

05 AM 1AA wrote:
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So what excuse do you have for JetBlue and SouthWest??
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It''s called "being better equipped to weather the storm". Just because there is a terrible economy, that doesn''t mean that every company in the world will collapse. It simply means that some have less exposure to the problems. WN and JB can weather the down-turn because:
A) Neither carrier has international service which is deeply affected by SARS and 9/11,
B) The public perception is that both of these carriers are significantly cheaper than the majors (FL can be lumped in this, too) and since there is less money to be spent, passengers choose the lower fare airlines.
C) JB was quite highly financed from the beginning and has a lot of fat that they can burn through.
D) Similarly, WN has few obligations and therefore doesn''t owe like other carriers do.
E) Both carriers are low-profile in the international community and therefore are even a less likely target for terrorists.
...I could go on. But if, as you state, airline management is responsible rather than the economy, then when did they get control of other industries such as telecom, health care, education, tourism, automobile, retail, etc to destroy them? I can''t even believe that you can''t see that there is a bad economy and that it is responsible for so much more than you give credit.