Not going to happen. Nothing to see here. Seriously. Their strategy is to wait and use this time to do some cost cutting and look at planning for the eventual flight of the great albatross.

I often wonder why pilots get so giddy about acquisitions in which neither pilot group stands to really win and also wonder why pilots view any hint of gloom as pure unequivocal evidence that we are headed to bankruptcy and/or M and A. Calm down. The time to acquire another carrier was years ago when they were at fire sale prices and the DOJ didn't want to chest thump about consumer protection.