Originally Posted by Excargodog

Some of the assets were the pilots themselves. Who would have seriously expected the FOs or even the junior CAs to do a transcontinental commute? Nor did they particularly want Virgin’s aircraft, terminating the Airbus leases and parking them as soon as feasible. It appears that buying Virgin was almost entirely a defensive move, just so no competitor could get it. And although they claimed it was to support national expansion in competition to the Bug Four, it soon became obvious that the expansion they were really interested in was pretty much in California.