In the news this week... (interesting stats)
 

From the Brancatelli file on www.biztravel.com :

1. Busiest business travel route: NYC-LAX. 7300 people daily, AA has 35% of market, UA 21%.

2. Second busiest: Honolulu-Kahului. 6800 pax daily, Aloha and Hawaiian has 98% of market.

3. Third busiest: Boston-NYC. 6,500 daily. This is also the most profitable route at $0.60/mile. (The 15th most busiest route, New York - San Juan, is the least profitable ($0.092) among the top 25 busiest routes.)

4. On the average, US airlines has oldest planes (avg 12.1 years). Asia has the newest (6.6). Euro is 8.8.

5. Average age of NWA's fleet = 20 yrs; Alaska = 7.6. Iberia = 12.9; Swissair = 5.1.

[This message has been edited by kyklin (edited 03-30-99).]

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kiklen kneed two cheng hes ubb cod an typ et rite.

I know my typing must have gone to hell when it is corrected by arturo!

arturo appears to be of the "do as I say, not as I do" school of management...

arturo atend mushroom skool of menageriemint.

One man's mushroom is another's fungus.

arturo se gatow knot unerstan bout mushrooms.
gatow bin menageried by mushrooms. an elsow gatow arturo kno who fungis amungis es.

How interesting. I was just shopping for a fare for NYC from LAX. And by being a very busy route I thought that I could find competitive rates. But then again, since they are probably 90% for business rates are kept pretty high.


Tim


ps. I think I need a "Arturonese" thesaurus.

I think arturo attends the "do (as I say, not as I) do" school of management...

arturo giv yu defynytion of hes skool--abjecktiv of mushroom skool is "to keep em en dark an feed em lots of doo-doo."

management by mushrooms definition (sorry for an inadequate translation from german):

- let your people in the dark,
- daily distribute some "sh it",
- when they are grown up, cut their heads.

FYI (sorry to go non-omni, but pandering to CATMAN)

CO's EWR-LAX fares for the end of the year (I've been pricing October for tht last few months) just got cut in half - $3xx down from $6xx..

arturo sey gracias two rudy. he kno mushrooms. butt rudy, yu sey "sheet" en yur massage. arturo sey "doo-doo" en hes an "doo-doo" niser then "sheet".

Thank you NJDavid for getting us back on topic (if only temporarily!)

Now if CO is reducing rates, I'm wondering if the other airlines will follow!

OMNI: This cat does not care about mushrooms or whatever else that's not travel related on this forum! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

If you eat the right type of mushrooms they can make you fly...

sorry Catman, but I couldn't resist. I will go back to being a meece now.