Originally Posted by
yulred
Make up your mind.
LOL. Make up my mind? About how AC prices their products? My position has been clear and all this talk of “price” is for people who don’t understand basic business fundamentals. If Rouge can charge the exact same price as mainline on YYZLAS, they will. If Rouge can charge as much as Mainline on YVRSFO they will. If Rouge’s lower costs enable them to discount BOS-YUL-CUN to steal marketshare from B6/US, they will (where they might not have with Mainline cost structure).
Originally Posted by
yulred
The only metric I would be interested in is whether AC charges more, the same, or less than it did when it offered mainline service.
Why would that interest you? Did Bell lower your cell phone bill when they moved call centres to India? Would you agree the service you get from India is often not to the standards you received when it was here? How is this any different?
Originally Posted by
yulred
If you say so. The general theme across reviews is that prices haven't gone down (it is performing terribly on the value-for-money criteria on the same website that is responsible for AC droning about being the best carrier in North America).
Business #1 goal is to return value to shareholders. AC was miserable meeting those goals for many years while they won all these awards and the hearts and love of a bunch of FT FFs.
Those awards and the love of everyone here is meaningless if the airline is bleeding red ink all over the place.
Originally Posted by
yulred
I've seen you argue the opposite of this on other threads (perhaps earlier on this thread as well). I guess you're just going to spin it whichever way suits you?
Umm, RASM is fluid and compared QoQ and YoY. Believe I read RASM is slightly off in Q12014 YoY. If RASM is slightly off and LF is flat, your position on “prices” is incorrect. Simple as that.
Please do show me where I’ve “spun” anything.
Originally Posted by
yulred
Why are YVR and the BC Government making such a strong push for Open Skies?
So you answer my questioning of your “underserved” position with questions? Alright. This won’t get very far.
Originally Posted by
yulred
Note - I said Canadian aviation policy, which extends beyond protection from EK. It extends to silly rules and fees and taxes. JetBlue is on record as saying that they would consider serving Canada if the cost of operating here wasn't so high. A big chunk of that is down to taxes. Lest we forget, we've got a Competition Bureau that is so unimpressed with the state of competitiveness in our aviation sector that it actually supports the unilateral granting of cabotage rights.
I’ve agreed with you every time you’ve stated this. No going to start arguing against it now.