Hmmmm...
/me rubs goatee
So, ACA is actively pouring gasoline on the UAL bridge...
Meanwhile Branson pipes up with "I gotta get in on some of that Yankee action"
I'd be astonished if ACA decided to try to spool up under their own power. What market are they hoping to fill? God knows the East coast is owned by Blue and U. West coast and you'll be bumping heads with Southworst. Go down south and AirTramp will eat your lunch. Moving in on Big Sky's territory? <grin>
How much do you pay your dispatchers? And when are you going to stop being based at friggin Dullas? Geez, I thought it was expensive to live around Chicago!?
When the United battleship was going down by the head, Whiskey looked at going it alone. The excuse from Mahogany Row was that we didn't have a reservation system in place (which is easily rectified... If UAL went bye bye Apollo would be pretty easy to get a hold of, and what do you know, we come pre-configured for it!)... And of course the usual "it's too expensive", blah blah blah... I for one thought we could make a reasonable run at it.. After all, we're flying 86 and 100 seat airplanes right now... Of course a King Air could outrun them, but I digress. <grin> I'd say, ditch all the CRJs, shift our base out of ASE, fly from ASE to everywhere in the 146 and watch us rake in silly cash!
I do have to wonder how one would cut a reasonable profit margin on a 50 seat jet. Now, the CRJ9... There's a bird that might pay the bills.
Paul