I'm a baseball guy and it's trade season so i'll make some bold predicitions. When trade is about to happen in baseball a player gets sat due to an "injury" or "rest" before something big happens and it's always in hindsight that a trade was obvious. TD taking a step back is the same thing. To me, this means something is incoming whether it be good or bad. My personal opinion is that we are merging with another airline and there is no space for TD at the the top. I think whatever company we are merging with needs a DN as the face to rebuild. Southwest and JetBlue are at the top of my list.

All that being said HAL and ASA merger seems to be on the verge of being blocked so the landscape for consilidation could be changed.