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...fare carriers are no longer simply competing on ticket price, they are also raising the bar with the services they offer. While the Big Six airlines (American, Delta, Continental, Northwest, United and US Airways) struggle with high costs and dissatisfied passengers, small, low-cost airlines like JetBlue, AirTran, Frontier and Spirit have learned to please customers, make money and grab market share, all at the same time. They have become major players in the industry. Low-fare carriers, including pioneer Southwest Airlines and the improved America West, account for 30% of the market, compared with just 5% a decade...
...month United, which has been in bankruptcy since December 2002, plans to start flying its own knock-off low-fare airline called Ted. Flying initially from Denver to Las Vegas and Fort Lauderdale, it will offer customers a multichannel entertainment system called Ted TV. Ted is aimed squarely at Frontier, the low-cost airline that has eaten away at United's dominance in flights out of Denver. Frontier accounts for 16% of that airport's passengers, up from 8% five years ago. Last year Delta created Song, a brightly colored, all-coach carrier, with a sassy marketing style, that flies...
...major airline this summer when its revenues are projected to top the $1 billion threshold. But Wall Street analysts have begun to wonder if JetBlue can handle its rapid growth and new competition: its stock price is down to $25 from a high of $47 last fall. Denver-based Frontier, which flies mainly new Airbus planes to its 42 destinations, carried more than 5 million passengers last year, up 37% from the year before. It added Los Angeles last month as its second major airport base, and in the spring will start point-to-point service to Minneapolis, Minn...
...clear victor in this battle is the airline passenger. "There has never been a better time to be looking for a cheap ticket," says Frontier's CFO Paul Tate. Stephen Kulakowski couldn't agree more--he happily flew home from Florida on JetBlue...
...short answer is a resounding: of course! If not us, who? If not now, when? The constant pushing of the frontier is a central idea to Americans; we are a pioneering people. I daresay, with such a large budget deficit it only makes Bush's proposal all the more heroic, especially in the world's eye. Perhaps this is the craftiest political stunt we have seen in a long time, but nevertheless, it will also mark what may be a second Age of Exploration and lay the foundation for the greatest era of scientific discovery the world has ever seen...