Originally Posted by
plasticpi
Ok, but WHY? That's what I can't figure out. Why spend a ****load of money to kill a company who serves your customers? They could have just let Pinnacle die on its own. Why throw money at it and then kill it?
NASCAR races are fun to watch becuase there are lots of racers beating the crud out of each other.
Delta must figure it gets back more in savings than it pays to keep the opening grid full of participants. When outsourcing your core business product logic gets turned on its ear. Does giving money to Aeromexico make sense so passengers can connect to Alaska?
Ticket and transaction fees are profitable lines of business. Deltas interests expand beyond running an airline.