Originally Posted by
Excargodog
For extra credit, does anyone consider the AS-VX merger to be successful? It seems that all AS got (or at least kept) was the senior VX CAs. The VX aircraft are mostly gone and the remaining VX aircraft will likely be gone by 2023. The JFK base was closed and east coast slots and gates sold, leased. Or abandoned. And they continue to bleed FOs to the legacies.
Seems like all they did was kneecap a competitor at a huge cost.
If you look at it through the lens of what they got out of it and kept…no, not really successful. If you look at it through the lens of what they would be vs what B6 would have been relative to what each is today, specifically with regards to the west coast (and its connections to JFK), yeah, it mostly served its purpose, albeit at a high cost. Then B6 mostly got what it wanted slot/gate wise during covid anyway, and AS unwound it, so it ended up working out ok for B6 anyway. The merger would have just accelerated it. So in the end, probably a wash. But it was successful at impeding a competitor from encroaching.