Originally Posted by
JetJock16
You're kidding right? "Feeder" for now but “Stand Alone” with true code share (like Air Tran & Frontier, United & US Airways, Foreign and US carriers) down the road. Mark my words, SKW will start making the moves by the early teens; actually they already are gearing up if you look closely. Remember that SKW tried to by Alaska/Horizon once and they have enough money to buy almost any Major/National.
You can ramble on about United and DAL contracts; there are ways around them that keep SKW from breaching.
Most likely all wrong. While SKW could probably find loopholes in their feeder contracts, the contracts are only good for so long.
If DAL and UAL see SKW competing with them, even a little bit, they will drop them at the first opportunity. Those contracts are too lucrative for SKW to risk.
Similar problem with buying a major airline...SKW Inc. might buy some national airline but they would havre to operate them at arms length from SKW/ASA. Such an acquisition would have little impact on SKW pilots. They are not going to buy Alaska and staple them to the bottom of the SKW list
SKW is good company, but they are not going to become a major airline (real-world definition). Actually JA is probably smart enough to know that's a great way to lose a ton of money.