--- In vpFREE+AEA-yahoogroups.com, "vpFae" <vpFae+AEA-...> wrote:
Q: Why did Allegiant Air pull out of Lansing, Michigan? They
said it was because they were not making enough money. But all
the flights were full and they have a lot of upset customers
who loved the straight flight to Las Vegas. Why would they do
that when everyone wants to go to Vegas? We would fly out with
them three to four times a year and use your coupon book. Now
we have a coupon book, but no good straight flights from
Michigan to Vegas. We need answers.Read the answer here:
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/qod.cfm
<a href="http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/qod.cfm">
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/qod.cfm</a>
A remarkably intelligent and cogent answer from the folks at LVA. The
one thing I don't understand is that they get a ton of contract
business from Harrahs, so maybe part of the problem is Harrahs and
Allegiant not being able to agree on a deal for the seats. I also
suspect that part of the problem may be not so much the +ACQ-107 bbl of
oil (just checked Bloomberg), but their traders not being able to
trade profitably in the jet fuel or oil commodity market. People at
NWA tell me this is a major reason why NWA is in trouble-poor planning
and execution by commodity traders, and overbuying of fuel on the spot
market. If they focused more on this than trying to replace every
employee with a robot, they'd be in better shape financially.
Yes, the NWA routes LAS-DTW suits vampires (or farmers), with the pm
departure schedule being something like 3p/6p/10p, but from what I've
seen over the years, their capacity on those flights looks good-the
pricing is not exactly competitive, either.