We don't see any financial benefit to our business whatsoever.
It keeps the weight down on the aircraft, and it saves us a lot of money.
Service between New York and Washington, D.C. is something we're looking at very closely, but right now we're deploying our aircraft to cities we feel are under-served and over-priced -- and there are quite a few cities in that category, including Washington, D.C.
Boston is a classic case of a market that has a lot of service but it's overpriced. Every time we begin service from Boston to a new city, we come in and we liberate the route with low fares.
We are actually in the very early stages of figuring out a way for customers to [fly] with any international airline that wants to partner with us.
A lot of people in this market book at the last minute.
We're starting up to six flights daily from Dulles to Boston on January 17.
We find it ironic that we were kind of pressured to release these slots, and now they're apparently not useful to them (American) anymore. The marketplace changes so rapidly, almost on a daily basis, so I'm not entirely surprised. No one should be.
It's far more valuable to customers who choose to watch, and customers who choose not to watch can turn their unit off.
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