The following are my personal thoughts on the matter:
I believe the problem that EZ and FR have is that they are just too big, all those planes need so much fuel, and with fuel being $105-$110 per barrel, in my view, they cannot afford to fly them, slash seats to 1p and keep buying new planes at the same time; something has got to give.
Have they both expanded too much? I don't know, but baby has 80% load factors across all it's bases and is making money (not a lot, a little), but it's doing so without having to cut prices to compete or give a million seats away in order to drum up business. Can the same be said for the likes of FR or EZ?
Interesting times indeed.
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