Originally Posted by
JLAMS16
And why are trying to buy an almost bankrupt airline with another 1100 pilots and a crappy Amazon contract that needs to be staffed yet.
If the company wants downgrades, this place will implode.
I’m in the “ I hope the merger fails” camp.
One answer is that the company needs to get bigger to hold up against the big-four in the long term. Organic growth is hard because you can't just go down to Airline Depot and load up your cart with all the gates and slots you need. Even harder these days because boeing.
Other answer is it's an ego/vanity project on the part of top execs.
Truth might be somewhere in between, but I think mostly the former.