Comments on: Notes from US Airways Media Day

By: Arguing For the United Continental Merger Part 2 | The Airline Service Guru

Arguing For the United Continental Merger Part 2 | The Airline Service Guru — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:14:00 +0000

[...] the low cost carriers are most efficient, and then we see US Airways. (You might remember thatthey have a cost advantage to make up for their revenue disadvantage, and that means they produce seats more efficiently.) The other legacy carriers continue to grow [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:22:42 +0000

CF is an ASSHOLE!!! don’t bother reading anymore of his/her articles

By: CF

CF — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:59:01 +0000

Yeah, they’re still going with the RCA strategy (Reliability, Convenience, Appearance) and they’ve made great strides. Things are going quite well in all areas. I’ll try to get at more details if I can.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:54:13 +0000

We didn’t really get into full details there, but we can easily look. I just picked a random date in June. United has a 715a blocked at 2:16 while US Airways has a 745a blocked at 2:09. Southwest has a 7a blocked at 2:05.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:45:40 +0000

This included JetBlue, AirTran, and Southwest. While Southwest has large focus cities that approach hubs, they are primarily there to serve local traffic. Then they just take advantage of the connecting opportunities. The legacies fly to those tiny cities which are specifically meant to come in and feed the hub and aren’t designed for local traffic, so it’s a different dynamic.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:42:21 +0000

The cost advantage is going to be primarily wages but there are other small pieces as well.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:39:09 +0000

3. Yes, block time is the total time from when the airplane leaves the gate to when it arrives at the next gate. So it’s the same thing as scheduled time.

By: CF

CF — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:36:08 +0000

Because I’m not going to penalize US Airways and the Phoenix Aviation Symposium for the laws of the state.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:22:33 +0000

I can state that 2009 was 2009 was a very good year for the airline with high on-time performance, a low number of cancellations, low lost bag rates, and lower complaint levels. This is primarily because they ran a better operation.I think it is a real progress!

By: JayB

JayB — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:17:30 +0000

To some of us seniors, US Air will always be Allegheny, actually All American Airways.

I still remember All American flying a Stinson into old Lancaster, Pa. airport, coming down low, almost touching the grass runway, snatching the mail sack from the line stretched between two poles, and back up the plane went. Now that was impressive! (No, I never did get to see the Pony Express. Probably pretty impressive, too!)

My image of them may be troubling to US, because that does cause me to book around them and for all practical purposes, never even consider them for international. However, I don’t think we are that much of the market for US management to get too concerned.