04-08-2008
05:40 AM
3 Loves
Good answer to my question above, but wasn't a "ring-fenced" operation the way that Southwest ran Muse for a few months. That was not the greatest experience for Southwest, because you had to close it down, but you had an airline operating MD-80s - totally different from Southwest fleet, and you got Muse to operate routes that were complementary to Southwest's own operation.
I thought when ATA started doing DFW-MDW, MDW to NY and Washington etc, that ATA became a sort of proxy -Southwest.
Whether Southwest does some things itself, or with a partner - maybe as a partner for a Europe based airline - I know it has to be something that produces a win for Southwest. A WN-win situation.
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04-05-2008
08:02 AM
5 Loves
OK, not quite the same thing, but years ago Delta bought Pan Am's operations to Europe, and they took over the Pan Am A310s and the staff to operate them. The A310s were a new type for Delta, and they were buying the operation from an airline that was not yet bankrupt.
If the services to Hawaii did anything for Southwest, it would be possible to run a ring-fenced operation using former ATA staff and equipment before those staff get other jobs or leave the industry.
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01-28-2008
08:30 AM
8 Loves
People could buy gadgets with longer battery life - you are only flying across America, not New York to Tokyo. There would be no problems with VoIP if people would chat at reasonable levels. What are they going to chat about anyway? If you are discussing business, you never know who is sitting in the row behind you. If seats are like pavements, will people find a hotspot in the plane and read your e mail?
Probably the only reason people would make a voice call on the plane would be to tell their folks that the plane will be late. But this is Southwest, and Southwest is always on time.
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if a seal climbs up onto a beach, and someone wraps some tape around its nose and mouth does that make it an air tight seal?
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