quote:Originally posted by Jeffers555
So Capt.Pag do you think Ba's proposed link up with AA will be good for VS? Do you think it will be good for competition? Will it be good for the passenger?
Creative thinking on BA's part? Maybe. Desperation? perhaps. I think it is probably too little too late. They cannot keep losing money at the rate they are and still survive.
I don't know enough about the industry, or BA's proposed deal with AA, to answer your question properly... but I am a intrigued by your post...
Are you saying BA's proposed deal with AA will make them so strong it's anti-competitive or are you saying they are so weak they can not survive as they are? I do understand that it's possible for BA to be both too strong and too weak at the same time but, I'm unsure which situation is actually best for the passenger?
Normally, the accusation levelled against BA is that they use anti-competitive practices (such as subsidised pricing) to force the competition off a particular route. I hate that business practise as much as anyone else, but to me, the LCY-JFK service appeared to be a totally new idea.
The point I was trying to make was that, in the present climate, new creative idea's should be congratulated not ridiculed. The sad point was that in the past you'd have expected fresh idea's like this to actually come from companies like Virgin...
