Originally Posted by
aldonite7667
No merger will take place while airlines are making gobs and gobs of money. Why upset the investor apple cart if you don’t need to?
UA is the least profitable of the Big 3 and investor pressure to change that. Our financials are solid, RASM on Mint flying is healthy. Good cash on hand. If they wait til conditions are more favorable to a merger then there could be a bidding war for B6.
Originally Posted by
ProPilotBlue
So about that. Alaska took on a whole pile of debt to get VX. Would a merged Alaska/JetBlue be in a worse-off place than if JetBlue had won that merger instead? I'm worried that a merged Alaska/JetBlue would be financially worse-off than if we stayed separate.
I think that's a fair concern