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Originally Posted by tonyw Interesting. On the one hand, you praise Southwest, but on the other hand, you say the founder, who is on record as saying his airline cannot provide the service that we need in this country, is wrong. You wanna call me an idiot, fine, I'll live. But then you'll have to be calling Kelleher one for saying the same thing. |
You're talking in circles here Tony. I've watched SWA come up from the beginning. I constantly heard how they couldn't do what they were clearly doing. Then when they surpassed all the legacy carriers and became the number one domestic passenger carrier in 2003 most people were caught completely by surprise. Now there are still a few saying that they can't do what they are doing.
So while, like any other single carrier, they can't provide all the service to all the cities and carry all the passengers, they're doing ok. 31 years old and never an unprofitable year. Yeah, these guys obviously don't understand the airline biz.
Clearly there will be a need, going forward, for hub carriers. And clearly there are too many hub carriers and too many hubs and too much capacity in the national hub system. And the fact that you can't understand how
Kelly can point out the obvious need for hub carriers to shrink capacity while continuing to build his own profitable company would indicate you don't exactly think like Kelleher. It doesn't mean you're an idiot, it just means you are not a Kelleher, but then who is?:-)