Originally Posted by
DMEarc
What does Sun Country have that Alaska can't do on their own?
You don't merge with someone just to merge, there has to be cost savings, strategic advantages, assets.
But merging for a small MSP presence and 13 737s? Makes no sense.
JetBlue is the only logical mate.
Perhaps they want to pull an Atlas type move. Atlas purchased Southern (and Florida West Cargo, or some entity like that) I think in part to re-set and therefore stall contract negotiations. Would an acquisition of Sun Country (probably wouldn't cost all that much) put negotiations back to square one?