Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
Why limit yourself? Alaska and Southwest are big on the west coast and could provide much more feed. Or forget the feed all together and just position Moxy as a buyout candidate for Alaska or Southwest (and Jetblue) to gobble up. 3 way bidding war, maybe more if the legacies show interest in the A220.
Cheap planes, young pilots, no hassle buyout. Neeleman gets richer.
Because I think this is JB's west coast plan. Use this "codeshare partner" to start a West coast network with costs so low we couldn't do it and the competition can't compete with it. Then after the network is developed we eventually aquire Moxy (like we tried to do with Virgin and Frontier). All pre-planned and pre-ordained with Neeleman who doesn't seem to have a bad relationship with Robbing or Joel Peterson.
We aren't doing this for feed for us so much as a way to start a West coast network that has all the advantages stated above. Without helping or strengthening Alaska. SWA pilots contract wouldn't allow what you said anyway.
And Neeleman still gets richer, and maybe even returns to JB one way or another.