Originally Posted by Flyby1206

Agree 100%, the question remains how do we truly compete against that? NK merger will be a drop in the bucket when you look at the global alliance networks we will be facing. I still think our best bet is to saddle up with oneworld/AA and leverage our BOS/JFK presence to expand into non-oneworld hubs where NK already has real estate (DTW, IAH, ATL in particular). The oneworld carriers feeding our BOS/JFK hubs would be massive. I also feel AA has seen the value in offloading some of their domestic feed to a separate entity like JB since they won't have to pay/manage a regional carrier on the routes. This could be expanded to ORD/DFW type of flying where NK also coincidentally has bases.

Over time (another 5-7yrs) we have developed a more mature Europe network and join the AA/BA/oneworld TATL JV. After that point we start looking at the Eskimo and hula girl.