I’m not an AS fan boy but what they bought in VX was real estate. I believe it was 13 JFK slots. 1 DCA transcon slot. Multiple LGA, DCA inner ring slots (currently leased to SWA and Blue I believe). SFO gates, LAX gates and those coveted DAL gates. All those are still owned by air group. It wasn’t 800 pilots and a leased fleet, there is no value in that. The same people that were saying AS bought VX as a defensive move are now saying blue buying spirit is all about growth? Please, the frontier spirit merger would really hurt jetblue in Florida. This was their defensive play and it is probably the first of many. The checker players always critique the chess moves.