27/09
If you had been reading the media releases, you would know the answer to all the points you have raised. All quite sensible and rational decisions when you understand the context. I only get them second-hand from a friend in the US, but they appear to be quite widely circulated.
Starting an airline is an incredibly complex and risky business, and most startups, including the one I currently work for, end up going in directions that only vaguely resemble the original plan. We were lucky in that we prospered and grew, but what we are currently doing has no similarity at all to what we intended to do when we started out.
Time will tell.