You have a partial point, but the rest of what he wrote was spot on.

Also, not merging is not a business plan, it's a lie told to employees to make them believe they don't need a union and/or believe in "culture".

So attempting to acquire Virgin wasn't a change in business plan, just a violation of the fake culture.

Acquiring Virgin solved a perpetual problem for the company, trying to outsource RJs violates the laws of physics with respect to infrastructure, pilots, and their LCC cost-cutting business plan.