The big carriers are competing much more aggressively now price-wise -- allocating seats to win as much traffic from small carriers as they can. Then, of course, jet fuel prices did hurt everybody last year.

The traffic was much weaker than anyone was expecting. My guess is no one knows for sure how bad it was, including the company.

Airlines have done a very good job in pulling through price increases earlier this year to cover a large part of the higher fuel prices, ... Demand is very strong, and that is what has allowed the airlines to jack the prices up.

This was big for us after coming off two losses to get a win like this, ... It was nice to finally win on the road.

We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats),

They're probably looking at what's happening with Northwest and Delta and probably realizing they have to get their contract cost structure down as well.