Originally Posted by
av8or
Ya know it’s just sad to watch. I don’t see the pilots at any other domestic airline of our size wondering about survival/growth. This boils down to leadership and co mmunication, and even if it’s NOT the case, it at least feels like our management is either arrogant, incompetent or some version of both..
That's not true.
There are a number of ways to measure size of airlines. Here is the wiki page for North America by passenger count, fleet size, (feel free to ignore these two) destinations, and frequency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._North_America
If you choose to measure by pax count, the big 4 (AA, DAL, UAL, LUV) are pretty much one group. Below that, the next US airline is Alaska, with a comparable pax count to Spirit and Jetblue. And F9 isn't that far behind on pax count.
The pilots at those airlines are concerned about the same things as Alaska. Survival/growth is an industry wide problem right now.
Now that B6 has entered the merger fray, I expect there to be some more mergers. And if B6/NK goes through (I'm expecting that to happen), Alaska is probably going to be in play. It's possible that one of the big 4 could acquire Alaska; LUV and UAL would be the least likely to encounter much DOJ resistance.
And don't forget F9; if they aren't able to merge with NK, they're likely to merge with someone else.