Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from Mike Linenberg from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mike Linenberg - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Two questions -- Dave, what is the goals with respect to Lufthansa when you -- and I don’t know what sort of metrics, whether it’s revenue or when you think about the enhancement to loads on the markets that you co-chair with them. I mean, is your analysis suggest that maybe you could get a bump up of a couple points? Any info you can provide on that would be great.
David Barger
I think with respect to Lufthansa, first of all, we look at the relationship as much more than the commercial agreement. It’s the investment, it’s board seats, intellectual expertise, et cetera. I think I’d characterize Lufthansa -- and again, we just started selling this -- the ability to really monetize JFK as our gateway. We’ve seen this with [Air Lingos] in Boston and Kennedy. We’re starting to see some trends with Lufthansa, so I think that I would probably just want to manage expectations because it’s new and let’s face it, there’s other -- there are other avenues that Lufthansa has in terms of feeding customers across North America through the Star Alliance.
So I think it’s early. We’ll have much greater visibility here later in the year and into 2010 and I think we will be able to be much more transparent on it.
Mike Linenberg - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Okay, and then just my second question, Dave, and this has to do with capacity, you know in the third quarter you were up a little under 3% and in the fourth quarter, you are now looking at 5% to 7% and I know that you’ve indicated that a lot of that growth is new stuff and yet when you kind of look at where RASM is heading for October and you sort of look at it versus the last couple of months, at least on a RASM basis, it looks like it may be a little bit of a set-back. I know on a top line basis, it looks like there is improvement there because you are adding a lot of capacity. Does that -- with that type of performance and the new markets aside, would that suggest to you that maybe you need to do a little bit more right-sizing in some of the core markets? You know, maybe trans-con or Florida, and maybe that you need to cut out some frequency? What are your thoughts on that? How do you think about that?
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