Old 12-04-2012 | 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by johnso29
Of course they did!! Why in the world would Delta provide financing to Pinnacle that in turn would support their competitors lift?!!!!!? If you ran a business, would you loan money to someone who in turn would use it to provide services for one of your competitors? I highly doubt you would.
Why not? United does it.

They pay Republic to provide lift as a UEX carrier which in turn supports their direct competition provided by Frontier who are flooding the market with seats sold at below the cost to generate a profit.

Oh wait, you must have been talking about what a not-crazy person would do...

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