Southwest to PHL
Nov 3, 2003, 12:14 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gregorygrady:
If you're smart and you care about the money in your wallet, YES YOU PROBABLY WOULD GO ON EBAY AND BUY A SECONDHAND RAPID REWARDS TICKET!! Now that the Rapid Rewards tickets are electronic, you can do just that for a flight 3 hours away. It's almost as easy as calling in for a reservation and could end up being only half the price.</font>
If you're smart and you care about the money in your wallet, YES YOU PROBABLY WOULD GO ON EBAY AND BUY A SECONDHAND RAPID REWARDS TICKET!! Now that the Rapid Rewards tickets are electronic, you can do just that for a flight 3 hours away. It's almost as easy as calling in for a reservation and could end up being only half the price.</font>
What if it's a business trip? I can't expense a Rapids Reward ticket. Even if I could, why would I want to do that? Companies have cut travel quite a bit in the last couple of years, but if they can pay "only" $299 one way for a walk-up fare, they will be just delighted.
Here's another one -- suppose you want to travel on a RR blackout date. If it's a personal trip that has to be done on a particular day (e.g., funeral), you will HAVE to buy that walk-up fare. Or if it's a business trip, surely you can't make everyone else change their schedule just to fit some RR blackout dates. That wouldn't make any sense.
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Nov 3, 2003, 1:51 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by deelmakur:
It doesn't matter what the Southwest fare is. It will be lower than the one USAirways had in mind when it planned its recovery around building up PHL. In addition, when you only offer commuter planes to major cities, the difference between yourself and SWA becomes negligible. This is all about strategy. As for our guys, how do you spell "Check Mate".</font>
It doesn't matter what the Southwest fare is. It will be lower than the one USAirways had in mind when it planned its recovery around building up PHL. In addition, when you only offer commuter planes to major cities, the difference between yourself and SWA becomes negligible. This is all about strategy. As for our guys, how do you spell "Check Mate".</font>
it's very very hard to see a viable scenario in which CheckMate, Summer '04, isn't the sole possible outcome.
Nov 3, 2003, 5:56 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by martin33:
...it's very very hard to see a viable scenario in which CheckMate, Summer '04, isn't the sole possible outcome.</font>
...it's very very hard to see a viable scenario in which CheckMate, Summer '04, isn't the sole possible outcome.</font>
It seems unlikely but US could still pull it off. If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs. The good news is that with things as bad as they are now it'd be pretty easy to make positive changes -- the only thing that's really stopping them is force of habit...
Nov 3, 2003, 10:57 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TomBascom:
It seems unlikely but US could still pull it off. If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs. The good news is that with things as bad as they are now it'd be pretty easy to make positive changes -- the only thing that's really stopping them is force of habit...</font>
It seems unlikely but US could still pull it off. If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs. The good news is that with things as bad as they are now it'd be pretty easy to make positive changes -- the only thing that's really stopping them is force of habit...</font>
Nov 4, 2003, 5:33 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TomBascom:
... If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs. ...</font>
... If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs. ...</font>
Nov 4, 2003, 5:35 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TomBascom:
It seems unlikely but US could still pull it off. If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs.</font>
It seems unlikely but US could still pull it off. If they face reality, fix the fares and concentrate on positive differentiation from the LCCs.</font>