Call me old fashioned...

Area 5150 said:
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Fancy little airline that I flew on, Once!

But, why oh why did they decide it was a wonderful idea to take on Southwest at Love?
Japan sorta had the same idea in WW2. They called it.......




Kamikaze! ;)
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Southwest didn't kill them. American did. American launched an all-out fare war to kill them, because they saw how much of a mistake it was to allow SWA to get so big.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Southwest didn't kill them. American did. American launched an all-out fare war to kill them, because they saw how much of a mistake it was to allow SWA to get so big.
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Ah!! Interesting! I just assumed being at Love, it was a Southwest thingy!!!!:)
 
SeanD said:
Yup, no first class but they had the seatback TVs before most of the regular 757 fleet had them. When my band went on our east coast tour in 2006 we took the redeye Song from LAS to MCO. It was $100 per person for a one way. I beat the entire planes ass in trivia too.:biggrin:
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Nice! I heard that Song had some interesting features. If I also remember right UAL also had a low fare airline for week called Ted.
 
Whatusername said:
Nice! I heard that Song had some interesting features. If I also remember right UAL also had a low fare airline for week called Ted.
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Ted was terrible. The complete opposite of Song. Coincidentally we flew on TED out of ORD when we were heading back home after that same tour.
 
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Do not speak ill of Teddy, one of the lamest marketing ideas on the planet. Tilton was a genius! His brainchild was supposed to garner a big market share away from JB amd SWA (which didnt happen) by having cheaper flights on the TED planes to what he figured were vaca spots that families wanted to go to or for those who travel to them for conventions/business or whatever or flew to frequently. This lasted about a year and a half and then they started using the planes for regular mainline flying and killed the entire program like two and a half years after it began. He couldn't believe that with the runs/truns to LAS and PHX that they couldn't put a dent into what SWA was doing. They started out running the same flights at even the same times and it had no real effect on SWA or JB. The public never bought it and most of them just wondered why the hell there was TED painted on the planes. They spent a fortune on double jetways like in DEN and PHX and then tried TED souvenirs. They had the TEDTimes, TEDTV, Travel With TED, TED News and all kinds of key chains, pins and other crap. Pilots from the senority list were shoved over to fly them and had to wear TED ties and TED pins. One Captain I knew had a TED sticker on his flight bag that had a little noose around TED drawn on it with a marker pen. lol
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Southwest didn't kill them. American did. American launched an all-out fare war to kill them, because they saw how much of a mistake it was to allow SWA to get so big.
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I think they also fitted F100s in all business class and started service in DAL to kill them off.
 
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