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Old Jan 31, 2021, 3:15 pm
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As with the same threads started for each of the other major US carriers, the answer is likely that it is far too early to even contemplate the answer to this question. Same factors for UA & AA. Business travel not likely to return until 2024 and, even then, a good chunk of that is likely gone forever as many discover that what they thought required travel, does not.

For 2021 it was just a question of maintaining. Now, carriers have to rethink their business plan and what it will take. Once that is in hand, they can then start to think about how that affects the FFP and on what terms. How to identify the people likely to spend and encourage that spend on DL?

Given that nobody has a remote idea of what the course of Covid looks like, seems like this isn't something to deal with now.
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