Or professionalism, or (insert whatever you'd like here). It's a tie, or a hat, or a coat/jacket. It doesn't make you anything. It's like a tattoo. Some of the most professional, best pilots I know, have to wear long sleeves.
It's official: Virgin America to merge with Alaska Airlines
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Or professionalism, or (insert whatever you'd like here). It's a tie, or a hat, or a coat/jacket. It doesn't make you anything. It's like a tattoo. Some of the most professional, best pilots I know, have to wear long sleeves.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Fact sheeting showing 219 + 60 for fleet, plus new deliveries. So over 280. It will become the 5th largest airline after the 3 legacies and SWA.
alaskadrifter
Landing gear operator
So much for the internet being right about Jet Blue and Virgin. Thought I read somewhere they are going to stay on seperate operating certificates.
FloridaLarry
Well-Known Member
No wonder the Eskimo is smiling. He's getting a V*****!
little_cricket
Well-Known Member
With little scope, I hope they don't whipsaw the pilot groups like they did to the Horizon guys.
Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
This thing is prob a ways from truley being done. I'd expect business as usual for awhile. Just wild guess.
Murdoughnut
Well sized member
If I did an experiment where I asked people to rate their confidence in their pilot and showed them photos of a highly polished, clean cut, well groomed pilot, and showed another group a photo of an overweight, shirt wrinkled and partially un-tucked pilot, do you think they'd rate them the same?
If you randomly selected two groups of guys, one to wear suits to work each day, and the others to wear khakis and a polo, do you think there'd be a difference in how they perceived themselves professionally?
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
...and then they'd get right on board with the slob if the ticket was $10 cheaper.
ClarkGriswold
Non Nutritive Cereal Varnish Engineer
Are you swimming?
AAPalmTree
Well-Known Member
dude on the tail looking at "virgin." SO. MANY. JOKES.
The people that chase the "it's cheaper!" price are always going to chase the "it's cheaper!" price regardless. They're fickle, treat your airline like a urinal and have zero loyalty to your product. You will always be battling the new entrants with the introductory fares, think SWA in ATL then Frontier and Spirit show up to the party.
The high value customer, however, you've got to bring your "A Game" to retain. Everyone is after your best customers, every day.
A good percentage of your high value customers (or their travel departments or secretaries) never go to the "price grid" on Orbitz and book directly from their chosen airline's web page and don't really have the opportunity see the "Fly a beat up Tu-154 with the Chechen ACMI crew to Fresno for cheaper!"
Bossman says look sharp, tie your shoes and we'll throw money at you, do it.
(No offense to the Chechens and I'd like a chance to ride on a Tu-154 "Seven Twoski")
The high value customer, however, you've got to bring your "A Game" to retain. Everyone is after your best customers, every day.
A good percentage of your high value customers (or their travel departments or secretaries) never go to the "price grid" on Orbitz and book directly from their chosen airline's web page and don't really have the opportunity see the "Fly a beat up Tu-154 with the Chechen ACMI crew to Fresno for cheaper!"
Bossman says look sharp, tie your shoes and we'll throw money at you, do it.
(No offense to the Chechens and I'd like a chance to ride on a Tu-154 "Seven Twoski")
Autothrust Blue
Speed Bugs, Surf, Sunshine
Inertia is a thing, in any organization, be it a merger or a bankruptcy situation.
Autothrust Blue
Speed Bugs, Surf, Sunshine
I, quite often, deal with the "Well, back at Brand X, this would have NEVER happened"…
Corporate inertia, even in a well executed merger, is certainly a thing.
The new stage of caterwauling is about to begin when the new ACARS software goes from R2 displaying "< NWA REQUESTS" to "< DAL REQUESTS". @Richman's phone shall ring off the hook at the grand injustice…. crap, that is an anachronistic expression!
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