Tough decisions and broken crystal balls
- Thread starter ZapBrannigan
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BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
There is a reason that every other airline that once had a large presence there no longer has a large presence there.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Did they not offer physics at Jet U?
SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
Not the smartest thing to do, call into question the education of an engineer...
He hasn't made the greatest choices when it comes to prepping for airline life, sure, but the guy is an engineer. That takes a lot more education and smarts than the average pilot's background.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Or I was just making a joke. Why so serious all the time?
SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
I was under the impression that JetU was always a serious "slam" on people. Paying $30,000 for airline new hire training...
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Been to STL recently?
FLL was a great place to launch Caribbean flying from back in the day when airplanes that had the correct number of seats for the islands market didn't have the range to do it from the Northeast or the mid coast hubs direct. Now that a 319 or 190 can make it from New York or Philly or Atlanta direct, there isn't much need for hub flying to the mid and north Caribbean out of south Florida, other than the O/D traffic.
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
Must be a market for it. JetBlue says those markets mature in 6 months and subsidize domestic growth that can take two years or more to mature. I doubt Spirit, JetBlue, and soon Southwest would be duking it out down there if there wasn't money to be made.
Seggy
Well-Known Member
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, isn't that what got the airlines in trouble? Lack of capacity control?
surreal1221
Well-Known Member
How nice it must be to sit at a keyboard and challenge a parent's decision on parenting.
Especially coming from some that are not themselves parents.
I am no CC fan, but no member of this community deserves to have his/her parenting decisions judged by other members, short of absolute negligence and harm directed towards the child.
Especially coming from some that are not themselves parents.
I am no CC fan, but no member of this community deserves to have his/her parenting decisions judged by other members, short of absolute negligence and harm directed towards the child.
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
There are those that would argue that 'lap children' on jets IS absolute negligence. The data is there.
Or there's The Dude and his toolbox, which is appropriate, as CC is a total toolbox.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I'd ask you to show me your data because a scene from a movie isn't going to cut it, but your toolbox comment renders anything else you say as imbecilic. I encourage anyone else concerned to post news links/stories about BIAs being killed or hurt in aviation accidents in which adults live. If I truly let my conservative engineer self take over my child's life, I'd probably never let him out of the house for his own safety. But like all parents, I find a good safe balance.
That's not really saying anything. There are also those in this country who would argue that gays adopting children is absolute negligence in our predominantly Judeo-Christian society. I'm not in that boat but it goes to show that just because you think something it does not mean your train of thought is correct, and therefore someone who disagrees with you is a bad person. No.
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Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
How large of a presence does Sw have in FLL now? Their recent attempts at turning an airport haven't always turned to gold like they had In the past.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Zap sorry to hijack your thread. I'm not sure what to say. I know you wrote you were at Airtran and furloughed and went to US Airways. Imagine having taken the Airtran recall, look where that would lead to today. Or the US Airways recall and where that would have lead to today. But the benefit of hindsight isn't available. We all make decisions based at the current moment in time and do what we think is best. As for your current choices, I wouldn't know what to tell you except to do what's best for your family.
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
No worries. I've learned from this thread that most of you people are crazy and I shouldn't ask any of you for advice. ;-)
I would imagine a seasoned Spirit or Allegiant passenger likely knows how the ticketing process works, exactly what amenities they want or don't want to purchase, what level of service they desire to buy, and what they want to do for baggage; hence they likely know just how to craft all of that into the price that meets their budget. ULCCs work for them; unlike some first timers who don't know how all of the aforementioned items work, then complain when they don't receive expected regular airline coach or better level service, for a bargain basement price.
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