bulldog69 me old
No bleating.
QF dont need to use B747s to put Virgin out of business because;
1 Geoff doesn't need to worry about Virgin and understands that he needs at least one solid competitor to keep the market stimulated, it's called synergy.
2 He also understands that it would be financially really dumb to take a high capacity aircraft off a high yield/capacity route just to prove a point.
[quote] The beauty of all this is there is not a single reason in the world for
VB to whinge anymore.Don`t want to hear anything about terminals,or QF predatory pricing or the myriad of moans echoed previously.
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Disagree and agree, hows that.
Virgin or any new entrants have every right to whinge about terminal access given the corrupt Tammany Hall politics and policies that placed them with their current owners.
And tell me again that the Tesna scam is about putting pilots and staff back into work. <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
Predatory as a concept only comes into force where there are only two unequal forces. QF as do Virgin and Ansett, if they are as smart as they say they are, understand that spending 80% of your effort to go after the last 5% just doesn't work.
As EWL says 'vacant capacity dumping' is fine and a good way to get people on board for the longer run. But it will only work in the context of your existing route and capacity structure. Creating capacity just to be able to dump it as you suggest QF can with B747 is madness.
Equally dumping it without being able to service the demand in a timely fashion is equally damaging.
Watching "Airline" the other night was a salutory lesson in "Passengers Are Stupid 101". A small number of intending pax for the airline in question had been delayed due to a major accident on the freeway to the airport. The flight could not be held and had to leave without them because of schedule and TO slot demands that were going to reverberate for the rest of the day.
The pax held the airline responsible for their inability to meet their schedules, even though it was a result of the accident. No amount of polite requests to understand the airlines and other passengers problem was going to convince them that it wasn't the airlines fault.
So far Ansett are the ones who have been doing most all of the bleating and running to the Government for help. All QF and Virgin have been saying/bleating is, if you give it to them, how about us?
Torres mate of course
None of them are wearing any clothes
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