Originally Posted by skybolt

Sorry Chopper, didn't intend to malign AAY. In fact my comment didn't say anything about AAY, it especially didn't say you were afraid of NK. I said that our CEO likes to send message to competitors. Also notice that I didn't say which competitor.

AAY wasn't even on my mind when I made that post.

As Sailor and 319Whisperer wrote, NK will leave profit.....for bigger profit, but my point was that NK may have never intended for the route to be long term when it initiated the run.

For example, once in the recent past, NK possessed the ability to fly a run over another carrier's money run. BBB held that in reserve and didn't fly it as long as the other carrier left us alone on our profit routes.

It is also possible that the Mesa run was initiated when substantive progress towards a merge with or sell to AAY was being made.

My point was simply that our CEO has a history of making multiple moves to achieve his goal. We usually only see the final move of the sequence.

FWIW, I'd love for AAY to buy Spirit. From what I see, AAY treats it's employees far better than the way Spirit treats us. Could be wrong.