Originally Posted by
JoeFever1
If Indigo wanted to sell or merge or anything they wouldn’t be behaving in the manor they are. Closing ORD makes no other sense then to save money, fill ATL, and have reserves for Summer schedule. They’re gonna knock us down until the last second when they need to actually grow and they’ll offer cents on the dollar hoping we’ll be knocked down and desperate enough to take anything. In this case though, I think they went too far and it will come back to bite them.
Indigo’s and managements actions would have zero impact on a merger or acquisition. Another airline wouldn’t have been tripping over themselves because Frontier had a couple of common use gates in T5 for a couple of hours in the morning and evening. Another airline or investment firm also wouldn’t care how management is treating its pilots. If anything, I would argue that management’s recent actions would make us more attractive to a possible buyer: The fat is trimmed, we’re financially leaner, and pilot bases are staffed. Face it, ORD just wasn’t winning any awards for base of the year from a financial or practical standpoint. I was based there for years and I’m very, very sad to see it go, but it’s was a sad reality. Indigo just wasn’t willing to pony up the money for more gates in the expanded T5.
Unfortunately pilots make horrible airline managers. History has proven that. There have been a good number of pilot created and run airlines throughout history, none of them still exist. There are far more to running an airline than 99 percent of us understand.