Originally Posted by
All Bizniz
I'm just curious why they'd put out the bid in the first place if there's so much uncertainty about the future?
They put it out even in the midst of the Delta variant wild fire..
The delta variant is no joke. However, we're only months away from under age 12 vaccine approval. Also, the corporate arm twist campaign will help bring us closer to fully vaccinated nationwide. Of further consideration is Alaska's primary customer demographic: upper middle class PNW residents. Those people weren't hurt so much by the covid economy. These aren't spirit pax using their stimmy check to take the family to Orlando. This might shape up to be a great holiday travel season for alaska airlines.