Terry Trippler Quotations

Where I think the controversy will be, is when the first airline announces you will be charged for checking bags.

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Using yield management, you don't have to raise fares to raise revenues, you just make people buy the more expensive fare class. Now we'd have a better chance of playing with the gold bars at Fort Knox than finding out if or how Delta is doing this. ... It's hard in this case to say whether Delta is doing this or raising fares outright.

We're just scratching the surface. I think 2006 is going to bring a tremendous amount of changes.

This really could be the airline of the future - a true hybrid.

Low-fare carriers cannot offer those $39 fares forever. Eventually, they are going to have to raise fares to offset rising costs.

One would think that consumers would want to see someone in. But when push comes to shove, the consumers want their World Perks miles, and they will support Northwest.

Next Friday we'll have a much, much better idea of how things are going. I want to give AMFA 14 days because there's a chance AMFA may be right.

I would be foolish to say there aren't people who are booking away because of the rhetoric. As it gets louder, it hurts the company more.

If they think they can fly through this (high fuel costs) they're kidding themselves.

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

I think the power has definitely shifted to management and I think it is going to be this way for many years to come.

I think we have the makings of the airline of the future,

I think some of these carriers can still make it,

I was wrong, ... I wrote them off. But this is why they are the most determined group of survivors I have ever seen. -- This airline deserves to succeed because they fought back.

Right now people are willing to be patient mainly because most of them already bought their tickets. But if this drags on, it's hard for me to see people pushing each other out of the way to book advance tickets on Northwest.

That Delta attitude, it's been there a long time, it's what made them great, and its what made them hesitant to seek protection long ago.

Who gets the best deal? You know, there is no hard cold result.

We have clients who are very finicky about their seats. I think they'll pay that extra $15.

When Americans get their vacation, they're going. If they're going to see Grandma and they're planning to see Grandma, $100 is not going to keep them home.

This takes a relief off everybody. It's excellent news for Northwest Airlines, employees and the people of Michigan, Minnesota and Tennessee. It's not so good news for United, American and US Airways that when Northwest becomes lean and mean they will be a force to reckon with.

Those $29 fares were too low. You don' t charge those kind of prices and continue to operate. The bus even costs more.

We'd be foolish to say there hasn't been (an impact). This is a very tough situation to try to figure out. I know from experience some people are booking away.

You are seeing things happening you never saw before, ... are now starting to take a page out of the success of low-cost carriers. Forget market share. If a plane or route is not making money, 'we will pull it.'

You have to give it to Northwest. They're flying, AMFA's not working, ... I'm not ready to call it yet, but, boy, it's getting close.

We say we'll never fly that airline again, and the first sale, we're there. We're terrible.

Does Continental want to buy United? I don't know. I don't see it.

Continental did not go along in the past. The key is, will they go along this time? For the passenger, it's something they have been getting free, technically, that they shouldn't have been all this time.

It would be a hell of an airline,

People are tired of Northwest and their labor problems. Customers' patience is at end. It's a fair assumption to make that if so many people in Detroit didn't have to rely on Northwest to fly, nobody would pay attention to them at all.

Northwest seems to have a better grasp on what it's doing than Delta does. Delta raises fares and announces a sale at the same time. Northwest is making the adjustments they have to.

Northwest made a wise move not to impose the contract. They don't want a strike and will go to the very end to make this happen.

Northwest is going to dominate the Detroit-Boston route for the foreseeable future. Spirit wants a little piece of it. They'll probably get a piece of it.

Northwest has made a very wise move. It's going to be a revenue generator.

This is a soap opera. This is a sure destruction plan. But, they both know this absolutely could liquidate the airline. Neither side will allow this to happen.

This is not a see-saw. This is major shift in labor-management relations.

This could've sent this airline into complete liquidation.

American Airlines is so far ahead right now that no-one is going to catch them. Southwest had 52 straight quarters of profit. It doesn't mean all airline stocks are bad. Some of these low cost airlines have a bright future.

They had to do it because of fuel. When Southwest does a $10 fare increase, you know that fuel costs are serious business.

This is what happens when a low-fare airline comes into the market.

Does this guarantee Northwest Airlines will survive? No. But it puts it way over 90 percent.

It's hard for us to fathom. It's difficult for the airline employees. It's difficult for the average Joe consumer.

It won't be a record year in 2006 in Detroit as Northwest and others continue to adjust their capacity. The planes that are in the air will be packed, but you can bet the passengers numbers will be down because of fewer flights.

They cannot continue to bleed red ink. Delta is going to get hurt a lot by this. Not just the oil prices, but the loss of flights they will experience over the next several days. It could be the one-two punch that makes the brain trust at Delta say it's time to go into Chapter 11 reorganization.

Anytime Southwest opens up a new market it has been a benefit to consumers, but it might take a while for this to catch on in New York, depending on prices.

I'm not seeing that huge increase. We know somebody will go there who would have gone to New Orleans.

I'm not saying vouchers are bad. But they're not gold.

I'm not going to say they're going to go away overnight, but I would be less confident to encourage someone to go ahead and buy their ticket for a trip in May.

If not controlled, it could mean delays and disgruntled passengers. It's critical that this tension be stopped as quickly as possible.

If you're paying that kind of money, you expect fine food and wine.

I think all of the airlines will feel this. It's a little more than a blip, but New Orleans and Gulfport alone is not going to put Delta into bankruptcy. I think $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.

I think all of the airlines will feel this (and) ... $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.

I do expect to see the other legacy airlines match the United increase or file an increase formula of their own. Over the Labor Day weekend, I expect to see the airlines jockey for position but by ... Sept. 6, they will probably all be on the same page.

You can take away the pretzels, the pillows and the magazines, and the people are still pushing each other aside to get on those airlines,

Airlines are realizing they can't keep selling tickets for a loss.

Airlines are not a social service industry. Everyone expects the airlines to take a financial hit then criticizes them when they don't make money.

The emergency exit rows can probably earn them more than $15. So I expect to see that amount increased.

The frequent-flier programs' glory days are over. It is time to 'spend down' on all the airlines. Wise consumers are already doing that.