Originally Posted by
9mikemike
100% of no chance that
there would be a merger/acquisition with Jetblue. They have nothing that Alaska Airlines wants. And for the mist part Alaska has nothing Jetblue wants.....They have a very small presence on the west coast and are no threat. We dont haul their kind of passengers and they dont haul our kind. Alaska Airlines leadership is quiet and conservative old school business. Jetblue is not.....I hope that I could escape into retirement before such a colossal blunder could occur.
Hasn't there been many quiet, conservative, old school companies that went out of business, or were acquired by their more innovative competitors because they refused, or were unable to adapt to the changing climate in their respective industries?
I'm not saying it hasn't been to their advantage in the last 80 odd years, and one could say that it has been especially so in this pandemic, but I feel the competive forces that will eventually make another rally against our castle walls, stand a big chance of breaching our competitive moat, unless we adapt to the changing landscape.
They came real close the last time.