When I said that it's up to the employees to evaluate..., what I meant is that many contract negots are coming up in 2005, and in that sense it will be interesting to see how greedy or how informed they have become.
I think Group Transat is taking advantage of the situation, especially on certain markets, i-e UK and southern domestic (Zoom is very agressive in CWL and GLA, and a bunch of LCCs are shuffling the deck here in Can.) but to say that tier carriers will take over AT's entire business is a bit far fetched, re the comments I made above.
You can't simply discard the fact that the Group enjoys the benefits of running its own airline although it may be pricey in the present context (because of all the LCCs, although I was told that our CSM is actually the same if not lower than WJ), and as we've seen before so many times, many startups come and go.
It may be cheaper now for Transat to buy seats on LCCs, but don't forget that eventually, unionization and all, their CSM will also rise and they might lose their advantage.
Also Rosbif, you can't talk sked with AT, as everything we fly is on "charter" basis, even though we fly to CDG and LGW 6-7 times a week this winter, something we didn't do not so long ago. We also fly to MAN, GLA all winter which is kind of new for us.
One thing I can safely say, though, is that our bosses have never lied to us in 17 years, I can hardly see that changing, they've done everything they said they would and that, to me, is reassuring, call me a fool...
Last edited by gumbi; 22nd December 2004 at 16:07.