Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Spend $4 billion dollars to replace some older airplanes, most of which aren't that old?
JB wants to be a national airline. They've told us all, and their shareholders as much. That's the plan, and closing all those bases is counter to the plan and absolutely prohibitively expensive with our contract, cascading training events, etc... They can't even figure out how to close MCO E190 because it's too expensive for them, so they will wait until they have to and hope enough guys bud off voluntarily to the A320/A220. Airlines don't spend $4 billion to shrink to profitability, it doesn't work like that.
I agree. And just the simple fact of you cant run a national airline with bases/hubs on one coast, and a few on the other coast. There is a reason why large airlines have bases in north/south/east/west. Have fun with IROP recovery when 2/3rd of you pilots are on an east coast LDT and the rest are a 5 hour transcon away.
The people saying AA will make JBlu close DFW most likely are AA pilots, way overestimating the scary AA. JBLU is not looking to make these moves$ to carry AA's shine box. AA will have their hands full if/when SWA decides to come over to DFW in a few years once the Wright Amendment is fully exhausted with its restrictions.