I don't think Work was talking about ticket prices, Jetlife. He was talking about VX undercutting Union airlines pay/benefits for 9 plus years. That put downward pressure on the wages/benefits of all the other airlines.

Remember, Alaska's lawyers tried HARD to strangle VX in the crib. They were the leaders in attempting to get your certificate revoked based on foreign ownership. That forced the big Dick to diversify his ownership through various shill "partners." Just because you made a profit the last year of independence doesn't make up for the tidal wave of red ink you had before that.

AS management turned out to be the biggest suckers in the whole deal overpaying by a factor of 3 for a bunch of leased Airbii and the threat of B6 jumping on the West Coast. B6 wouldn't even be ON the West Coast if the geniuses at Angle Lake hadn't abandoned the Jet A slots at LGB.

No matter how the SLI goes down people are going to be upset. You just have to try to get along. There are still guys on the property who are upset over the Jet A merger and that was 1987. The thing to consider is how many Jet A pilots ended up on the 2nd floor. Things that make you go "Hmmm...."