Alistair Ross’ Post

Gone is the season of being a go-getter. It's the season of being a go-get-a-cup-of-chai-and-try-to-focus-on-your-work-while-the-weather-distracts-you-er.

We should get this on a cap.

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IT'S ANOTHER HUMPDAY PODCAST #swelbar and Boyd dedicate nearly the entire podcast talking about #SouthwestAirlines and #ElliottInvestmentManagement. It's only fitting that each Southwest and #AmericanAirlines have reported their third quarter 2024 earnings this morning. They both have reported better than expected results - but one quarter does not a make a trend. But a start, nonetheless. Then we hear that #FrontierAirlines and #SpiritAirlines are talking about another go at some sort of a combination. I feel the same way about this that I did when USAirways pulled the greatest corporate heist in the history of airline mergers when it would "buy" American out of bankruptcy. For me USAirways represented the duplicative and revenue dilutive capacity at that time. At the time of their combination enabled by a beauty contest, the industry needed less capacity and not more - so I believed that USAirways going away would be more of a positive than a negative. Today I believe that either/or Spirit or Frontier going away would be better for the marketplace for the same exact reason. Maintaining the potential size of Frontier + Spirit = some degree of revenue dilutive/destructive capacity. Concentration by the network sector and concentration inside of the LFA sector - let any innovation stop. And at American, is that company really better off today than when they combined with USAirways? Are they in financially better shape? In 2015 when American and USAirways would begin reporting as 1, American's share of domestic ASMs would jump 7.5 points to just under 20%. By the end of 2023 American's domestic share would fall to 16.7%. And American would see its transoceanic relevance decline too. So today, we will listen to the calls from the two carriers that call the Dallas Metroplex home. Hope Doug Parker is around to remind us that the industry will be forever profitable because outside events like a Pandemic would be off of the list of possibilities. But it is a great comment to be reminded of in an election season because the proxy contest in Ft. Worth was all about winning over employees just like it is on Mockingbird Lane today. American and Southwest represent the new middle of the industry. jetBlue reminded us how hard it is to compete from the middle of an industry construct. The new battle is AA v. WN and it could just be even more than a Texas-sized battle. #swelbar Below is the link to this week's podcast:

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Too many sales people focus on the wrong metrics. Volume of outbound touches, demos, etc. Did you speak to the economic buyer? Did all the stakeholders buy in? Slooow iiiit dooooown. Every tool, every measurement, all of those shiny bells and whistles are designed to help you help the buyer solve their problem. But all of it is useless if your foundation isn't solid. What do I mean? Why do we sell anything? To improve the quality of life for the buyer. At the end of the day, when you strip all of it away and take it back to the basics, like a door to door vacuum sales person, that's what we do. SaaS, real estate, candy, cola, a pen, and especially insurance. With insurance we are improving the quality of life in the future. Anyone disagree?