The first part of what I quoted I could see happening...As far as the second, well, yeah, that's just hilarious to me.

Inc: "Hey, let's buy XJT, merge them with ASA, then after we spend all that time and money merging them, we'll dump XJT because "they don't fit into our culture", and then scrap EVERYTHING we've worked for to spend more money and time to merge ASA and SkyWest and do the WHOLE thing over again. This will be a good idea, because it makes complete financial and business sense."

Hey Trip, rewind to about a year ago. Who was hiring and upgrading like crazy when the other side was offering COLAs, losing flying and talking about furloughs?

My point: We're all going to be FINE.

*Punches self in face for even responding to such a dumb statement.