Originally Posted by
Boomer
Thanks, that’s what I thought, but a friend seemed sure that the Captains would go up on the new list and FOs would go down, regardless of original DOH. Essentially a big reshuffling of everyone’s seniority within their original airline list. It didn’t sound right to me, but in 20 years of airlines this would be my first M&A.
This is gonna suck for all of us: B6 folks will very likely see seniority diluted given Spirit’s career expectations in overlapping bases and fleet types.
For the Spirit folks, many will probably have to start commuting, bc JB doesn’t seem to care for small satellite bases at all. I just can’t see them keeping all of Spirit’s current bases. I would expect them to consolidate those into B6’s existing hubs with *maybe* 1-2 strategic holdovers like LAS.
Totally hope this is just a ploy to run the price up or create a poison pill as a temporary defensive tactic