Originally Posted by
KenNoisewaterMD
That's the point.
If they'd prefer to grow organically, especially with our current economy, then the only reason for an acquisition is to save face and lessen the blow from the max groundings... The problem is, how would it work? If customers buy Southwest tickets but another airline flys the passengers then they're code sharing - are there contractual limitations on that? How would the unions respond?
Whoever they buy will have a schedule to fulfill in the short term. Sure, eventually those shedules will be satisfied and the airlines will operate as one, but again, if this is a band aid situation how does an acquisition benefit Southwest if they can't get the merger done before the Max comes back on line?
The Max isn't going anywhere. It'll fly, haters will hate, and passengers won't care.
We hope so, but... think what the delays and lack of growth will do to LUV stock. This is the time to be growing like weed and capture as much of the market share as we can. Everyone else is. We're not because we hitched our wagon to a single airframe and are being left in the dust. To make matters worse, the public perception of this airplane is bad, really bad. Thank you news networks and the social media!
A lot of people stand to lose A LOT of money due to our inaction and stubbornness. A shuffle at the top would be the first step something is changing, and if we see that, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if we announced the acquisition of one of those airlines.