Originally Posted by
sflpilot
I was at Republic when all of that went down. Definitely a huge mess. Frontier had an offer from Southwest at the time that they somehow screwed up and ended up tied to a regional for a while.
The bankruptcy judge said no to the Southwest deal because the plan did not address labor. SWAPA wanted to staple the Frontier pilots to the bottom of the seniority list, FAPA said no. Republic won the bid because of their plan to keep the airline independent.