Southwest would own Alaska but they (AS) have insulated themselves a huge amount with the support of QX if Alaska goes without QX AS can kiss California good bye and a stronger SWA will evolve as they have a much smarter evolving mgmt arrongance is a dangerous thing in business i.e. Pan Am, TWA. Kill QX and AS loses all control over feed. Delta simply calls in theirs cards and ask Skywest for all resources. =game over. Give approachs in alaska to another airline outside of airgroup and they become public hence Delta destroys the AS bread and butter in the state of ALK need more reasons?