Originally Posted by Soxfan1

Didn’t SWA get around this by running AT separately during the wind down? IE selling tickets separately still, pulling a few AC off the operating certificate to reconfigure, and slowly winding it down? I can’t remember but once they get a joint CBA it could come with a clause that allows both certificates to exist temporarily during a set wind down transition period of say 2 years.

Though I’m sure they would re-protect and code share with each from day one during this transition so yeah still some issues just like AA/B6 now on that front.

But as long as they keep the brands separate wile converting say 10 AC a month for a few years and continue to sell tickets separately it could work.

I could be wrong but I recall flying AT well after the merger was official and I bought the tickets on their site and it was 100% their product although the CS was already converted to SWA and it was a SWA branded gate so some transition was going on outside the onboard experience. So not ideal for sure but I think there may be president.