I launch routes, add frequencies with different aircraft to make my airline bigger and bigger. What am I supposed to do, shrink my airline because someone doesn't want me to get big? They might as well ask me to quit!
We all want to hamper the competition. When someone opens a route with multiple frequencies, expect retaliation of some sort. Although multiple frequencies may be within the rules, other players may start playing the same way.
Tell me about it. I remember another situation back in the 2000-2007 round when someone based in CLT essentially wanted me off of PIT-CLT. They threw 7 frequencies on there to combat my 2 or 3, and I think his aircraft were larger... Then he put $10 fares on there, while I was charging close to 100...
This round, I always start out routes with one frequency. Sometimes I'll add a second one, like I said before.
If some one did that to me, i'd charge 1 cent on 10 frequencies with a 757. I dont care how much moneyI'd lose on it. They'd learn a lesson. (however, I'd only do this on one or two routes) :twisted:
I actually started to do that last round in the 1970s. A couple of routes I was charging 3 or 4 Euros, and still making money! -- 63 Euros! That was the lowest possible price to still turn a profit with, so I figured, "you know what, I dare you to go lower!"
It's all good tho. I remember first starting out with this last year (when there were only a few hundred of us!), and I was the only one with a base at PIT. Now PIT is a multi-base for about 5 airlines. I really must say I don't mind that too much. To see PIT become such a base is a fantasy of mine, and at least on here such a fantasy can exist!! Crystal and I essentially trade the top spot back and forth. DCA, tho, is another story ;-)
I just want to remain competitive at TPA. I know I will never become the top airline down there. They're too big!
