BoeingBoy
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- Nov 9, 2003
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Not to be harsh, but REACC1 said it - copout.It is not just better managment or practices or work groups but a combination of all three plus the factor of 30 years. it cannot be duplicated in my opinion. They only chance is an airline from scratch and as you can already tell JBLU is having some trouble trying to do that.
Until someone really tries to adapt WN's methods, no one will know if it'll bring success or not. So far, no one has - certainly not B6 despite popular misconception. Nor PE, FL, F9, etc. And most certainly not Song, Ted, MetroJet, etc.
FWIW, I've never been one to say that we should try to become another WN, if for no other reason than I'm convinced it would be corporate suicide - we'd never survive long enough to complete the transformation. But using that as an excuse not to learn from them (it's the employees, it's the history, it's the unions, it's the fuel hedges, etc) is an even bigger mistake in my opinion.
Heck, we could learn quite a few things from other legacy carriers.
Jim