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Boofer
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:20:06 pm
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Location: Carmel, IN
...despite what I said in the NW forum, maybe FL is going to back off in Indy. They're not ordering as many planes, anyway:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060908/airtran_mover.html?.v=1
stlgph
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:28:46 pm
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Joined: 27 Jun 2005
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Location: St. Louis, MO
not at all. doesn't mean squat for long term. 19 planes, is, as they say, still a lot of planes.
all that is going to happen at first is probably an adjustment here and there...moving the 737's to the higher load and higher yield routes and the longer hauls and moving the 717's to concentrate on the other routes. depending on how much shifting goes around when it is all said and done, you can probably get a good handful of more flight cycles. plus with the 19 planes...if you figure they're *ALL* flying longer haul routes, that's 3 daily cycles, which equates into 57 additional flights.
57 being the minimum of course....which is still a lot of flights.
7E72004
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 03:19:06 pm
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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Indianapolis
Courtesy of USAToday online-today's issue
AirTran delays delivery of 8 Boeing 737 jets
Low-cost carrier AirTran Airways appears ready to put the brakes on its rapid pace of expansion. The carrier said today that it would push back the delivery of eight Boeing 737 aircraft that it has on order. That announcement, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, comes just three weeks after AirTran reduced its third-quarter revenue forecast because of what the company said was softening travel demand. The carrier said then that it planned to reign in growth. Reuters writes that "the planes being delayed are Boeing 737-700s, the single-aisle, short- to medium-range airliners that are the workhorses of most U.S. domestic airlines." Reuters adds that the planes have a list price of about $60 million each. "We believe these changes are part of the fine tuning that will allow us to continue our track record of low costs and profitability," CFO Stan Gadek is quoted as saying in the filing.