Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
Let's not kid ourselves, it would mainly be about removing a competitor. NK is the toughest competition on our Florida routes.
Additionally, JB needs to densify our A321s to something closer to yours. Instead of our 200 seaters running NE-Florida we should have a 220 seater doing it. Same with our 162-seat A320s moving to something around 168-174 seats. The combined carrier wouldn't be a ULCC, but we would adopt some of the characteristics and become a lower cost LCC.
And let's talk about FLL. We'd have an instant fortress hub, which has been a talking point of JB in recent years, with room to expand to S.America. While the higher cost legacies beat each other up down in MIA we could have some peace and quiet in FLL.
Mergers cost money and JB does not have money to knock a competitor off in this dangerous market. They are in survival mode just like us. Merging with them wouldn't save us any money because we can consolidate more in mco and fll if we wanted. We dont need JB for a BOS or LBG base and to merge just for JFK doesn't make any sense. The DOT just loosened restrictions and will most likely continue to do so if things don't workout this summer. If we pull though this there will be lots of openings and maybe a change of guard in the big 3. There will also be huge openings flying south of boarder and hopefully we can get better slots than the red eye departures. Great opportunity in the stock market and great opportunity for the airlines. On the backside of this all we need to do is lock up dropped gates because demand will return and our most limiting factor is gates and planes. Planes are easy but gates are hard.