The "Airline Industry Analysts" constantly hear about the success of Milton and Air Canada's Tango and seem to be willing to try again. Soon they will 'start' to hear about 'Zip' and so on. None of Milton's speeches and mentioned only as a footnote in some of the printed literature mention that AC's 'low-cost-carrier-within-a-carrier' was done on the back of: a) The complete collapse of Canada's #2 carrier (Canada 3000) a week before Tango's first flight. b) The gradual transition of mainline AC-only routes to Tango-only routes. People want to fly, AC doesn't go anymore, Westjet never did, instant traffic for Tango. On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 08:09 AM, boblochry wrote: > I've always wondered about using the 757 in a low cost operation. It > has the > lowest cost per seat mile of any narrow body I can think of. But can > DL fill it > day in and day out? In the all coach configuration they are > proposing, it is > coming in at just under 200 seats. The other problem that "airline > within an > airline" operations tend to encounter is the drain on the mainline's > own coach > traffic. You have to give DL credit for being innovative. This will > be an > interesting one to watch. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bahadir Acuner" <bahadiracuner@yahoo.com> > To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:48 AM > Subject: DLs Low Cost > > >> I guess what I overheard at the ATL gate over a month ago >> was right. 757 is THE choice for the new low cost operation >> of DL. The interesting thing is, they are planning to make >> the new subsidiary operational in Northeast - Florida markets. >> >> >> BAHA ACUNER - CFI,CFII,MEI >> >> www.bahadiracuner.com >>