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Old 07-03-2020 | 05:26 AM
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Bluedriver
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Originally Posted by CaptCoolHand
I think these are all plausible theory’s.

I think JB wants to be aggressive? But to do that we need bodies and infrastructure.

I don’t think we’re being bought.
I don't have any idea what, if anything, is happening beyond the obvious no-furlough/23A. But with another airline supposedly returning 60 JFK slots, LAX likely having significant gate space coming available and/or EWR having expansion opportunities, JB could well be on the hunt for resources to quickly fill out those voids.

As I said a few posts ago, Spirit and Frontier are much less expensive today than they were a few months ago, and there are significant portions of both airlines network that wouldn't fit well in the JB system that could be redeployed rapidly to fill out JFK and/or LAX and/or EWR. Both airlines would also rapidly grow JB's Florida franchise and add incremental relevance out West.

All just one dudes opinion, worth exactly what you paid for it, maybe less.
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