Looks like the latest victim of capacity cuts is United Airlines’ airline-within-an-airline, Ted.
The troubled carrier is reportedly tossing its 56 Airbus 320 aircraft into the recycling bin and retiring the annoying name.
There’s been little love lost between this site and Ted over the years. We’ve called them wolves in low-cost clothing and joked about the airline’s name.
We hate it when we’re right.
The other “airline-within-an-airline,” Delta Air Lines’ Song, sang its last melody two years ago.
Both start-ups were feeble attempts to misguide passengers rather than focusing on the mainlines’ core business and finding ways to improve it. I still don’t see any need to repaint the fleet and relaunch the marketing for the airline-within-the-airline when it really isn’t anything different.
Now both Delta and United have paid the price.
