...and in any event, the headline metric isn't ASKs...that's a metric that the CEO has abandoned. And the board. Its yesterday's thinking, just like those pathetic 777s.
Seriously though, the real metric that is on everyone's* mind is APS...
Available pilot seats.
*everyone who actually clings to the notion that this once great airline can do a Phoenix of course cares about ASKs and the related costs apportioned thereto. But I think that it will be a little while yet before we get a CEO who will lead in the direction we point him.
The irony of that last statement isn't lost on me. But it does fit.