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“Northwest seems to be holding their own.”
Terry Trippler
“Right now people are willing to be patient — mainly because most of them already bought their tickets. But if this drags on, it's hard for me to see people pushing each other out of the way to book advance tickets on Northwest.”
“The frequent-flier programs' glory days are over. It is time to 'spend down' on all the airlines. Wise consumers are already doing that.”
“The game isn't over yet, ... but clearly I would say the score is Northwest 1, [labor] nothing.”
“This is not a see-saw. This is major shift in labor-management relations.”
“We'd be foolish to say there hasn't been (an impact). This is a very tough situation to try to figure out. I know from experience some people are booking away.”
“You can take away the pretzels, the pillows and the magazines, and the people are still pushing each other aside to get on those airlines,”
“It doesn't surprise me,”
“They cannot continue to bleed red ink. Delta is going to get hurt a lot by this. Not just the oil prices, but the loss of flights they will experience over the next several days. It could be the one-two punch that makes the brain trust at Delta say it's time to go into Chapter 11 reorganization.”
“I do expect to see the other legacy airlines match the United increase or file an increase formula of their own. Over the Labor Day weekend, I expect to see the airlines jockey for position but by ... September 6, they will probably all be on the same page.”
