Originally Posted by
flyguy81
NK and WN makes zero sense. NK and F9 are the most similar in terms of fleet, business plan, and contracts. The only reason to buy NK is to take out some competition but that still leaves a ULCC hole for F9 to grow in.
Forestalling an F9/NK merger would buy WN the decade or more it would take for F9 to grow organically to the size of the combined NK/F9 airline today. WN would be in an enviable position of having small and fragmented but relatively agile competition on the bottom, and large and lumbering behemoths on the top.
Not that I think its going to happen, but mergers don't need to be about some economies of scale.