Originally Posted by
O2pilot
I believe its because your management is setting the company up for a sale. It would be difficult with an RJ operation, since the most likely purchasers are already at their scope limit, and your RJ feed would have put them over the limit and caused problems.
Proposing the pseudo-international flights are a good example because JB lacks the economies of scale to make that work, like we have seen WOW and others not be able to survive without a fully integrated network.
I’d say no merger now, but if the stock goes under $4B there are going to be some interested parties.
Blah....Economies of Scale is a macroeconomic buzzword.
JetBlue doesn’t want any part of connecting traffic beyond the local city pair. They want the premium traffic of the local market.
Now if you want to talk about the lost revenue with the LR from international cargo operations - then you'd have a point.