But if premium business travel doesn't recover, you're probably going to see more capacity cuts.
"Ongoing consolidation and capacity cuts continue to squeeze reward seat availability, " said Daniel Farrar, chief executive of Switchfly Inc.
Next year he is expected to insist on cuts in capacity as the insurance cycle moves downward.
The present cuts in capacity and job layoffs may not be enough, according to IATA's director general, Pierre Jeanniot.
The capacity cutbacks could mean additional job cuts at the Atlanta-based airline.
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The analyst contends that the steep price declines in DRAMs late in calendar 2010 lead to a quicker industry correction, as rival memory chip makers announced production cuts and pushed out capacity expansion plans.
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Without massive federal largesse or the capacity to underwrite debt, deep budget cuts must be implemented.
Kenya already uses up all its 1, 200MW capacity and is compensating for frequent power cuts by installing temporary diesel generators.
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"While there is enough generation capacity to mean that widespread power-cuts are still unlikely, narrower margins mean the risks of outages are higher and scarcity of energy could also feed into possible price rises in future, " he said.
Barclays Capital thinks the OBR overestimates spare capacity in the economy and that planned spending cuts will not be enough to eliminate the structural deficit.
He aims to boost sales by 800, 000 over the next few years, thereby mopping up spare capacity, avoiding the need for politically-painful job cuts and restoring Renault's thin profit margins.
Nor does the labour market support those who claim that public spending cuts have condemned Britain to a permanent loss of capacity from a decaying skills base.
The blank planchets are not made at the Mint, which hasn't had the production capacity for this stage of the minting process since the budget cuts of 1981.
While Air Canada this week followed the American carriers and cut 20% of capacity, the European response has been more muted, with average cuts of around 10%.
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But, especially with growth-starved Asia loaded to the gills with manufacturing capacity, U.S. companies will have a hard time matching price cuts from that region.
As part of a lobby against the cuts, more than 100 people filled the pool to its maximum capacity in a 'swim-in' on Saturday afternoon.
Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.
Permanent tax cuts are unlikely to boost investment, which is influenced more by profits, excess capacity and confidence.
But it almost certainly has to do with the capacity of the private sector to make up for the loss of jobs in the public sector as the cuts bite.
On that note, China has restarted about 1.1 million metric tons per year of energy-related second half of 2010 cuts this year, yet it still has around 4.4 million tons annually of idled capacity.
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On the first point, although some tax increases will be needed to shore up fiscal capacity lost when revenue-raising financial services and property deals bit the dust, international experience argues that spending cuts, not tax rises, should bear the brunt.
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