Originally Posted by
Cujo665
You’re trying to equate major airline mergers and buyouts with consolidating owned cost centers. They aren’t the same. Buying another major brand to merge into an existing brand increases marketshare…l especially when one is bought in bankruptcy or otherwise in the cheap.
it’s not the same with owned regionals. They have no marketshare. They are cost centers. Reducing costs through consolidation means avoiding unnecessary costs in the process. I stand by my previous statement.
Where in my points have I described market share?
By global optimization, not sub system optimization, consolidation reduces overall cost in the long term, even though there is extra cost in the short term. If you think beyond this quarter or this year, you would see this.