Well butter me up and call me Sally! AC figures its foray with Tango was fertile experience for another crack at the LCC arena. Only this time the dance takes place on the charter floor – pitting the as yet nameless carrier against Transat, Sunwing and WestJet. With Europe and the Caribbean on the dance card, how about calling it Capacity Hustle?
That’s all we need, Pumpkins, more seats. But there is another theory behind this. That dogged ROB journalist, Jiggy Jang, scooped the story from a labour letter to the Pilots’ Association. Perhaps it’s a back end negotiation ploy – paving the way for AC to hire cheap crew to service ACV flights. A kind of AC Lite.
It’s fascinating how in this business almost any problem can be solved by launching a carrier. Too much capacity? Start your own airline! Oil prices getting you down? Start an airline! The last play you backed was a bomb and your actors are depressed and out of work? Let’s start an airline!
