firstamendment
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- Apr 1, 2003
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If you think SWA isn't on an all out assault to bring US Airways down, then you are as backwards as the avater you have. I don't down blame them for that. Just please, stop the koolaide innocent BS. If you guys REALLY stuck with the SWA concept, you would had gone into Trenton and kicked not only U's butt, but CAL. I know you guys think we blame swa FOR EVERYTHING but their move on PHL is pretty obvious. The tuff boys in PHILLY aren't going to give you any breaks..It is exhausting to hear the constant dribble of how great swa is. Watch "Airline"..not impressive at all. You guys have nothing but ghetto trash working at MDW and I haven't seen much better in any other operation. Sad to say, America is getting just what they deserve. I could care less about the average swa employee,,it is YOUR management team who has brought on this assault.KCFlyer said:You know firstammendment - I know several LUV employees, and very few of them feel that they can "do no wrong". US has had a stranglehold on PHL for a lot of years - they could have made it really difficult for LUV to ever gain a foothold there. But when your company charges $900 for a 200 mile flight right up until the day LUV starts service, is it any wonder that your local press might make it seem like LUV can do no wrong? Had US made more of an effort to insure loyalty to the airline prior to ANY low fare carrier entering the market, you all might be grinning smugly as the SWA jets taxi past damn near empty.
SWA's systemwide load factor is something like 75%, so no, not every flight is pulling away with every seat filled. The difference is that with SWA's pricing structure, there are only about 5 fare levels to any market out of PHL. The lowest bucket is right at (maybe just slightly below) their costs per seat mile. Those seats are pretty limited. The rest of them all make the company a profit. US, in their attempts to "beat" SWA on price, is sending out plane after plane that may well have MORE seats filled, but at fares that still don't come close to covering their costs.
It's easy to resent SWA and their reception to the PHL market, but you might want to look over to your headquarters and ask them why they didn't do anything to try and blunt the impact of SWA or Airtran at PHL well BEFORE they ever considered entering the market.