Originally Posted by
AggieNzona
That would be LFC, it is about operating structure and a no frills phlosophy.
Low cost not low fares, idealy the would like to be low cost high fares.
Press releases from US when they first merges spoke often of how they were indeed the low fare carrier. Now of course that has been shown in the meantime to be a total joke.
Press Release.
http://www.usairways.com/awa/content...sreleases.aspx
Reorganized US Airways Group, Inc. Completes Merger with America West Airlines
PHOENIX, Sept. 27, 2005 -- US Airways Group, Inc., (NYSE: LCC), effective today, has finalized its transaction enabling America West and US Airways to begin operating as one carrier – US Airways. Customers should continue to book directly with US Airways or America West as they did before the merger. The airlines' Web sites,
www.americawest.com and
www.usairways.com, will operate separately in the short term, as will the two airlines' reservations systems.
The new US Airways, which begins trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the LCC symbol, represents the nation's largest full-service, low-cost,
low-fare airline. Company officials and representatives from the airline's labor groups join US Airways Chairman, President and CEO Doug Parker at today's opening bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange.....