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.
You can do that, for as long as you want. But the double overhead means you won't be realizing the paradigm-altering synergies that the business analysts predicted and used to justify the merger in the first place. So not ideal to drag it out.