Originally Posted by
Lakeaffect
I think it’s a slight problem, nothing catastrophic maybe. But this is why I don’t think a merger with frontier is so far fetched. Aside from economies of scale. I think it could help solve the pilot shortage problem for both.
I mean, we are running the identical play book. It would be quite easy and it would probably make the stock price soar.!??
I don’t think it solves the pilot problem unless the merger came with a competitive contract. The deliveries are still in the pipeline for both. Maybe Indigo could take those off Frontier’s hands. I really don’t know. A 300 plane ULCC with a couple hundred deep order book looks nice on paper. But it still comes down to there being so much market share for the model, buying planes to meet filling that niche and then being able to staff them. The market is there. The planes are coming. Can enough pilots be recruited and retained to feed the machine?
Not at the moment.