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Old Mar 11, 2005 | 1:11 pm
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You are applying your own value judgment to the meaning of "low fare". Scheduled airlines don't sell all of their capacity at the lowest fare. You seem to be suggesting AC should sell at fares just far removed from the what Jetsgo was charging, when in fact, Jetsgo, in its bankruptcy filing lost $22 million so far this year! And no one else is making money right now either. So the SG low fare is not compensatory, and the low fares charged to compete with SG were not compensatory. Yet you seem to expect AC to assume the commercial risk of profitably operating an extra 767 section based on your definition of a low fare. I say that if you expect airlines to add last minute capacity to bail out passengers of another carrier, you cannot expect the airline to offer the kind of fares it might have put into the marketplace for today, the first day of March Break, eight weeks ago. In terms of the fares available today, the fare you cite is a low fare. It is not Latitude, or Freedom, or Executive Class. And WS appears to be charging no less... Unless somebody paid cash for a SG ticket, they can get a refund. The credit card companies are offering refunds, and the travel agent compensation funds are available for bookings made through agents. Other than that, why should the surviving airlines risk losing money adding capacity at fares you would consider fair?
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