The one quarter that VX had very good news to report (3rd quarter 2010, its only quarterly net profit), VX released the quarterly results earlier than it has in any quarter before or since - just 40 days after the end of that quarter.

The publicly-held airlines have already begun reporting their 1Q2013 results yet it's already April 19 and still no report from VX of the 2012 year-end/4th quarter results. Last year, the 2011 year-end numbers weren't released until May 4 and those numbers were not encouraging.

The DOT released its fourth quarter fare data this week - there are some clues in that data about the financial performance of VX in the fourth quarter.

My guess is that we'll have a lot more data on which to base a prediction within three weeks or so.