First jetBlue is not some hollow shell company who has a day of reckoning coming anymore than the rest of the current majors.

Second, jetBlue absolutely strategically drove up the price of Virgin and then sat back trying not to smile while Alaska swallowed down that poisoned horse pill.

Reading that sec filing , with Alaska asking Virgin to lower their price has me cringing hard knowing what came next. If we are lucky we (B6/AS) will both merge together soon down the road. If we are super lucky we will be individually gobbled up by the big four.

re: Virgin pilots. I hate to say it but they were always going to get acquired by someone, and unfortunately for them they got acquired by the least desirable partner out of the realistic prospects. Most of the time new crew bases are a small silver lining after a merge, and instead of that they lost their one non west coast base in exchange for couple new bases down the road to what they already had.

Makes me wonder if the Virgin owners did not approach and coordinate with B6 as a false flag to use against Alaska.