“By the way... Maybe VX was never meant to be a long-term and ongoing concern but rather a strategic play by investors to start it, increase its value and making it attractive enough for other airlines to get into a bidding war for its acquisition and exit with a pile of cash. I'd say they played it brilliantly..”

Biz, this rhetoric is why many AS pilots think the VX pilots had no real career expectations while at VX. That the pilots simply went there as either a place holder until other airlines started hiring again or hoped it would be bought by another airline. The belief is most of the pilots knew VX was not a long term game plan. This has been a source of much contention.