PoC
You make an excellent post but I am afraid that if you were trying to persuade Ray Webster then you will fail. He is bigoted and ignorant.
I guess that he is slinging mud at the wall hoping that some of it will stick trying to create the self fulfilling prophecy.
He has no idea about our future fleet plan or expansion plan. He has no idea of our business model, or the success of the cost saving initiatives. He has no idea of the load factors and associated yields that we are currently enjoying that the LoCos can only be envious of. He has now idea how well our new routes are selling.
He comes from the MOL and Stelios mould of the idea of success is not to just compete but to actually want to see the destruction of any competition and the associated loss of jobs and misery it causes. An abhorrent and immoral way of conducting business.
This can be evidenced by the Schadenfreud that both airlines enjoy by trumpeting other's misery with slogans down the side of their aeroplanes.
Have FR yet painted "The Baby is Dead" or some such other hideous slogan down their fuselage yet?