Air
travel has now disclosed people with new realities. If you are flying
internationally, you are probably flying an airline alliance rather a
particular airline.
The
truth is that with bankruptcies, mergers, and consolidation, the US is now
having only four network airlines namely American, Delta, United, and South
West and five carriers with more limited route systems: Alaska, Jet Blue,
Spirit, Frontier, and Virgin. Declining competition accounts for some of that
disparity. Airlines have also been retiring their fleets of 50-seat regional jets,
the backbone of services at mid-sized airports, as they seem more in the favor
of larger, more fuel-efficient aircraft that enhances the industry’s most
profitable form of flying i.e. international flights is mainly concentrated in
main big cities of the country. The small and medium sized airports have been
badly affected by these reductions in service. This has increased the American Airline stock price.
This
means declining in local service and it points out to the fact that a traveller
has to drive for hours to reach a larger airport. Experts’ think that this
trend will prevail unless and until airlines add route because of incentives or
when it sees another obvious opportunity to lift revenue. So the need is to
have new routes for smaller cities so as to save precious time of the
travellers.
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