Work could be a bit more diplomatic, but his basic point is valid. The ONLY reason B6 is even on the West Coast is that Angle Lake abandoned the LGB slots they got when they merged with Jet A.

When B6 started sniffing around VX, they panicked and over paid.

If they hadn't rejected Delta's need for more SEA feed they could have kept DAL out of their fortress hub. But they dicked that up, too. That created the perfect storm that REQUIRED an acquisition of VX.

And, yes, I meant acquisition not merger. It's not a merger of equals. If I was the arbitrator I'd give VX pilots DoH and no bump, no flush. Period. That's all they deserve after a decade of undercutting AS pay and benefits as a NON-UNION LCC.

Fire away.