Originally Posted by snippercr

Wonder if we will see a United wholly-owned carrier soon. AMR used to want to get rid of Eagle now AAG wants to keep the wholly owned carriers and bring the flying back in house. Same with Endeavor.

Most likely they will have to buy another one but would also make sense to create a new one from scratch, keep pilot costs low since no "gummers", make a flow through and rob their competition of any new blood plus churn.