Envoy/Mesa/Republic: Not individual in order to reduce competition and raise fares?

Maximillian_Jenius said:
Then no, because the regionals don't set their own fares.
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Regionals set their rates and mainline pays them, all of it is eventually picked up by the consumer. Yes less competition means higher prices, but at $1.50 a ticket per pilot that may go to $1.505, round up.

You see we need a way to grab all the tenths of cents. It's not even stealing, you're not grabbing the whole penny, just a tenth of a penny.

Anyway I don't know if we're even translating the question correctly. I assume ESL.
 
If the horse is just the right height, then no bucket is required. Which is nice, because then you don't have to do a balancing act.
 
jynxyjoe said:
Regionals set their rates and mainline pays them, all of it is eventually picked up by the consumer. Yes less competition means higher prices, but at $1.50 a ticket per pilot that may go to $1.505, round up.

You see we need a way to grab all the tenths of cents. It's not even stealing, you're not grabbing the whole penny, just a tenth of a penny.

Anyway I don't know if we're even translating the question correctly. I assume ESL.
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Well, Parker did say that he would like to add to the AA wholly owned regionals last year.
 
Brickyard400 said:
Thinking this is likely too complicated for antitrust lawyers.
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You think the antitrust folks would have gotten involved long before their merger with US Airways if they were concerned about competition and I see a long, long list of companies that should be investigated for issues much more serious than this. If you were going to investigate AA for something antitrust related I'd much more likely start at seeing if they fly any routes at a loss to drive out or prevent competition.

That said there's no reason to keep the labor shell game going as they don't have the pilot supply to do that any more. If your pilot group got too good of a deal, or were too tough in negotiations, they'd just move the planes around to another regional that paid less like they did with Envoy and PSA just a few years ago.
 
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srn121 said:
That said there's no reason to keep the labor shell game going as they don't have the pilot supply to do that any more. If your pilot group got too good of a deal, or were too tough in negotiations, they'd just move the planes around to another regional that paid less like they did with Envoy and PSA just a few years ago.
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This paragraph is contradictory. This is why the shell game will keep going. RJ's add value in the form of available frequency of flights among other things. The fact that we couldn't get everyone to stand together when contracts were being negotiated is exactly why they will continue to keep more than one on property.
 
From 11 am to 3 pm the jets are scary empty. I believe passengers fly based on the price of the ticket. Frontier is helping reduce prices to the Airtran days by making great competition.
 
jynxyjoe said:
Regionals set their rates and mainline pays them, all of it is eventually picked up by the consumer. Yes less competition means higher prices, but at $1.50 a ticket per pilot that may go to $1.505, round up.

You see we need a way to grab all the tenths of cents. It's not even stealing, you're not grabbing the whole penny, just a tenth of a penny.

Anyway I don't know if we're even translating the question correctly. I assume ESL.
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I think they did this in Superman 3...
 
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