Originally Posted by
east_west
How would a smaller network and not being in an alliance help take passengers away? And with that much capacity wouldn't BR/CI just cut prices to squeeze JX? I simply don't see anyway this can work... trying to compete with BR/CI head-on. Why not pick an unserved market with no TPE competition (DFW, IAD, BOS, SAN, PDX, ATL, LAS -- basically go after KE's network) or something like SJC that might attract people from the South Bay?
I didn't say he could get passengers from CI & BR BECAUSE of his small network and lack of alliance. What I meant is that it is probably harder to "grow the pie" because of this. Therefore, he has to get existing passengers fro CI and BR. Of course, he is also full of confidence that he can do this better than anyone else so he can get these people to move over.
The Chinese/Taiwanese are great a price competition but I also think if CI and BR didn't really get into it, CI / BR / JX might not get into it. There were a lot of ugly battles on airport resources (gates, land, spaces) and route authorities in the early days of BR.
He knows the numbers from running BR so I trust there are reasons LAX is on top of the list. LAX probably has the most affluent Taiwanese / Asian population for O & D premium traffic.