Edward A. Barnes
Management
I think that fundamental changes to the network would not be how I would think about it, how we’re looking at 2010 over 2009, with a couple of exceptions. When you’re growing in a focus place like Boston 30%, year-over-year, that’s significant. When those flights are into markets like Chicago, we’ve been in Pittsburgh, we opened Baltimore, Raleigh, Charlotte, clearly those are geared to business markets, business frequencies, and I think they’ll benefit our core customer base heretofore in terms of the leisure base. That is a way to think a little bit differently about the network. Kennedy is really underneath, a cap if you will, from the standpoint of the runway construction, and we’ve intentionally taken out approximately 10% of the flying up and through the runway construction period, but no changes there. As I look at what we’re doing down in Orlando, down in Ft. Lauderdale, down into Latin America, and out on the west coast, two thoughts, one is we’re continuing to focus into the Caribbean and Latin Americas, no fundamental change in terms of how we’re building that part of our network. As we mentioned in the prepared comments, we believe we’ll be at approximately 25% of our ASMs in that part of the world. Here’s what’s different. Barbados is now into year two. St. Lucia is into year two. Kingston is into year two. Montego Bay and the new frequencies into year two. We’re starting to see Bogota into year two. San Jose, Costa Rica. So the maturation that’s taking place in that part of the world, and there’s certainly seasonality with it. The last comment that I would offer is, and people would say on the west coast and as we take a look at our network and the competitive landscape and carriers that are offering $99 TransCon fares, that certainly is something that impacts us, but it’s core to us, and we’re going to keep flying to places like San Francisco and to LAX and adding frequency into those markets as well. Feel free to follow up on this, because I wouldn’t want you to think that there’s a fundamental change to what we’re doing with the network. It’s more building on our strength and the maturation that we’re seeing, and in some of these places, a very quick maturation such as down in the Caribbean and Latin America.