Enjoy.So we will revert back of doing business as the old US Air model? Just shut down all the West Coast? Will this solve the money problem Piney? SO Hp brought only prospect and hope of success to the new airline? I am not a kool-aid drinker, but dont' see logic in West being the only failure in this ballgame. I see the reasoning for shrinking LAS, but I believe PHX does have benefits that make this airline succeed. Maybe someone should question DP in the next town hall meeting, and ask him why we still fly in and out of PHX, and not just shut it down!! There are more reasons than just living here that is appealing to the business model. I believe United merger would of proved true, seeing as the DEN base will be making drastic cuts in the next two years. I am not an expert, just sick of people on this board tearing down the West Coast operation as weak, and brings nothing to this Airline. Without competition and an West Coast base, this airline has no REACH or FUTURE. B)OH so instead of addressing my questions you resort to violating the board rules here. Nice, things don't go your way and someone disagrees you insult and break the rules. OK by me.
Now then let's address the issue at hand and not the people shall we?
Let's first debunk the myth that HP was ever a LCC. Below are the CASM numbers as compiled by the Airline Data Project. which is run by some little community College name of Mass Institute of Technology or commonly referred to as MIT.You might have heard of it
. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
America West CASM 8.56 9.26 8.09 7.89 8.24 11.53
Southwest CASM 7.72 7.51 7.39 7.59 7.76 7.92
Given the above how can anyone call US a LCC when costs have risen steadily?
US's revenues were also signifcantly higher as well. If you break the numbers out US Airways was well positioned on a cost basis to compete after 2 BK's. What they were NOT was properly capitalized and thanks to Bruce Lakefield a merger got done. DP is 0 for 2 in pulling off mergers by himself. Lakefield could barely spell airplane however he could spell M-ON-E-Y and that's what HP allowed them access to. Look at the SEC filings and annual reports and see which side of the operation the profit came from in '06 & '07.I'll give you a hint it wasn't in the sun drenched land of cactii. Like it or don't your management team can't play in the big leagues. Everything to date points to a bush league operation. All you have to do to prove this is to tear doen CO's annual reports and you'll see how a real airline operates.
In 2005 CO generated $203,000 in sales per employee versus $167,000 for HP. You keep looking and the numbers speak for themselves.
Why is seems like even a misguided foll can see this.
I for one want this place to stay in business. We will see how this all plays out, and hopefully the pilots and fa's will see a fair contract soon! 
