On 21 Nov 2002 at 11:09, 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. In 1970, Robert Townsend wrote a book titled "Up the Organization". I have always felt that the book was way ahead of its time. Anyhow, from that book, on the topic of "greed" (page 127): To increase our share of the market a few years ago, I was on the verge of approving the startup of a new subsidiary -- which would compete with our bread-and-butter business -- at discount prices. To verify my own brilliance, I tried the idea out on a tall, rangy regional vice-president named Stepnowski. After hearing the plan described in some detail, he sank the whole project with one sentence: "I don't know what YOU call it, but we Polacks call that 'pissing in the soup'". Couldn''t sum up my own thoughts any better. Don Fan of great business writing