Originally Posted by
FlipFlapFlop
Staff are not the main cost to an airline as you well know so to cut your business by 75% would mean a reduction of 75% in the number of hulls. No way back then, so you may as well chuck the towel in now.
This is the second time I have seen this stated and I still dont understand this argument. If you are delivering a service you deliver at the level the customer demands. So if there is only a demand for 25% of current flights then airlines will reconfigure to match that demand. The idea that suddenly this becomes uneconomic and no airline will operate at that level simply does not make sense.
It may be that the industry changes to meet the new economic reality but that is what the rest of the economy is doing already.