Given our track record, it’s easy to look at things more as a pessimist than an optimist. Think like an investor; someone has seen Atlas Air’s potential as a cash cow and has moved quick to undertake it. I still stand by my opinion that no one really wants to add aging fleets to their portfolio, so the idea that we will become a leasing arm just doesn’t hold much logic. As someone previously mentioned; there is no executive round table to please every quarter anymore.
We can’t compare Jetblue to Atlas, but Spirit is the cash cow, with plenty of new birds on order and a very large market share. The plan (at least in JetBlue’s eyes) is to introduce a 4th major airline with an improved product (all subject to final approval of course).
I hope for all of us, we go that direction.