Alan Sbarra Quotes (6 Quotes)

Latin America is becoming more deregulated, but there still is not a lot of competition in a lot of markets and there is no Southwest competition.

The reason they've been in bankruptcy for three years is because they couldn't get creditors on board, I think they're going to come out when they say they are this time.

They do it because they can make a lot of money. They're able to cut deals that move them to the front of the line when it's time to be paid.

I expect more of the network airlines to do the same. Now that fuel is an issue, and other economics of the airline industry are pretty difficult, a lot of marginal flights are hard to justify. It's a prudent trimming of marginal routes.

There's always a trade-off. You save money when you don't buy new aircraft, but then you spend a lot more time and money on maintenance as they get older.

What it does is replace higher-salaried employees with new people at the bottom of the pay scale. It gets the average pay down.