Will Southwest drop service to more cities?
May 14, 2020, 3:55 am
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Yep, right after 9/11 business travel took a major hit. And the "fear" factor there was rather short lived.
The "fear" factor even if things get a little better will last much longer this time. And even a small uptick in disease spread will seriously impact "elective" travel. If folks are working from home just fine, they surely will not need to fly as much.
The "fear" factor even if things get a little better will last much longer this time. And even a small uptick in disease spread will seriously impact "elective" travel. If folks are working from home just fine, they surely will not need to fly as much.
May 14, 2020, 8:12 am
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Yep, right after 9/11 business travel took a major hit. And the "fear" factor there was rather short lived.
The "fear" factor even if things get a little better will last much longer this time. And even a small uptick in disease spread will seriously impact "elective" travel. If folks are working from home just fine, they surely will not need to fly as much.
The "fear" factor even if things get a little better will last much longer this time. And even a small uptick in disease spread will seriously impact "elective" travel. If folks are working from home just fine, they surely will not need to fly as much.
There will still be business travel. I think mostly in industries like manufacturing and technical fields where you can’t zoom into a factory or zoom to fix a product. But traditional business travel, such as meetings and trade shows, will be down for the foreseeable future.
May 14, 2020, 9:39 am
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and social media and video conferencing were in their infancy, if that. It was a different world on 9/11. Business travel HAD to pick up.
There will still be business travel. I think mostly in industries like manufacturing and technical fields where you can’t zoom into a factory or zoom to fix a product. But traditional business travel, such as meetings and trade shows, will be down for the foreseeable future.
There will still be business travel. I think mostly in industries like manufacturing and technical fields where you can’t zoom into a factory or zoom to fix a product. But traditional business travel, such as meetings and trade shows, will be down for the foreseeable future.
May 14, 2020, 9:59 am
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Many business and organizations are cutting back on spend due to revenue shortfalls caused by the shutdown. Travel is generally one the places they will cut back on when conserving cash. It's going to take long after the fear subsides for travel to recover.
May 14, 2020, 10:07 am
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Our company just had a virtual national Sales Meeting and it worked well. I think companies will rethink flying thousands of employees to a hotel location annually. The savings is enormous not to mention the risk of jamming all your employees in hotel conference rooms and the potential to spread diseases.
Professional events return when morale, team building, reward and incentivizing are the impulses. Will there need to be health screenings for large events? If so, who will be safeguarding attendee privacy?
Some bosses get extremely nervous when they can't physically see their employees. Remote work may recede.
May 14, 2020, 10:29 am
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ISP service is strictly to destinations in Florida, FLL/PBI/MCO/TPA. WN also services BWI for connecting flights to other cities.
Frontier is starting to compete with WN at ISP to PBI and MCO. Not sure if they go to other Florida cities.
If WN decides to leave ISP they are essentially handing the market over to Frontier. Don't see that happen. Too many snowbirds commute back and forth between Long Island to Florida, as well as all the families going to and from Disney.
Frontier is starting to compete with WN at ISP to PBI and MCO. Not sure if they go to other Florida cities.
If WN decides to leave ISP they are essentially handing the market over to Frontier. Don't see that happen. Too many snowbirds commute back and forth between Long Island to Florida, as well as all the families going to and from Disney.
May 14, 2020, 7:27 pm
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Our company just had a virtual national Sales Meeting and it worked well. I think companies will rethink flying thousands of employees to a hotel location annually. The savings is enormous not to mention the risk of jamming all your employees in hotel conference rooms and the potential to spread diseases.
May 22, 2020, 7:37 pm
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I'd think Phoenix and Baltimore way outrank Hobby in the last few years as hubs of importance. If SW will just get the beer flowing I think they can kill the other Big Three pretty quickly. Airline survival will be demask and alcohol. Food was never an issue with WN.
May 23, 2020, 3:51 pm
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the three I mentioned are WN dominant that other carriers fly sporadically to. Thus I can see other carriers potentially pulling out of those leaving just WN.
i was not analyzing which hub is more important.
May 24, 2020, 5:50 pm
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Jun 4, 2020, 8:48 pm
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DL has suspended MDW until fall. They were the only other domestic carrier, with four gates.
Jun 6, 2020, 11:38 pm
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Jun 6, 2020, 11:59 pm
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