Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The networks makes sense, but AA is very large, the largest legacy by many measures, so the trust busters would be leery. It would certainly depend on who was in the white house.
Now that Alaska has declared it's divorce from Delta ( AK didn't want a monogamous relationship that Delta thought was necessary) why would AA buy them? They now have the milk they want from AK (access to SEA/PDX) without worrying about buying the cow. The main reason they'd want to consummate a relationship is if they thought AK planned to cut them off of the code share arrangement.