Let start by saying I am a big Maxjet fan... A well kept secret on here I know [:I]
Originally posted by VS075
I think one of the problems with MAXjet is that they expanded a bit too quickly
Kind of right yes.
There are/were a number of problems with Maxjet, the first of which was the Washington service.
In the early days using older aircraft thats reliability was so so the Washington service was the one that bit the bullet, the problem was that in routing the pax up to JFK to take that flight they wrecked their own schedule, this fact became quickly known amongst the traveling professionals and caused a great deal of pax to skip MY altogether.
That of course hurt the yields (yield is the amount of profit the airline makes per pax for those of us that do not where the Pink Anorak [:I]) with EVERY flight going out losing money and the airline unable to raise fares because those business travelers that buy the full fare last minute ticket avoided them due to the schedule issue.
They never really got the corporate contracts which can be the life blood for an airline on the NYC-LON route.
They marketed themselves as a business airline...however the product isn't there, it is a business product from 2 generations ago, IMHO they would of been better off marketing themselves as a PE airline, instead of going head to head with the VS UC and BA NNCW product they could of gone up against the PE/WT+ class and beaten them.
They don't have any domestic feed, a partner ship with an airline like JetBlue would of fixed a lot of problems, also they have planes in LA and LAS that were constantly being shuttled around, why not set flights into the schedule to go from LA/LAS - JFK, make money while the planes are flying.
The FF program sucked, plain and simple in is right up there with Ryan Airs [B)]...get my point ?
Lastly...$100 a barrel oil...this little fact is going to kill a few airlines in the next couple of years of they can't raise fares [:#]
Ok...getting off my soap box [:D]
