Originally Posted by
keysersose
JB/AS does make the most sense. Don’t know which management team or board willingly walking away.
I suspect this is the largest roadblock to any B6/AS merger
Originally Posted by
keysersose
I don’t know if you need a mid America hub. If take the current JetBlue and Alaska hubs, and connect each of them to STL, MCI, CVG etc... you can get 95% of the American population to destination with one stop.
The only hurdle to this would be gate/slot capacity at the big coastal airports like BOS/JFK/SFO/LAX. Thats why it might be more economical to develop one of those cities into a mid-America hub so you can save the more valuable coastal airport resources.
Again, I'm not sure what the right answer is in this regard, either choice has its pros/cons.