Originally Posted by
Conquistador27
So just to clarify. You think they would spend all this time selling this to investors, shareholders and the federal government, eventually, possibly getting it approved only to not be able to combine for a few years because of a JCBA?
Yea that makes no sense. If no JCBA is agreed upon in the next two years then the merging airline will be getting a drastically different airline than they anticipated. Once the DOJ approves whichever merger is brought to them a JCBA will need to be accomplished soon afterwards.