Originally Posted by
Meowsongaurd
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.
it does make one speculate. SWA would never buy us though. It would be ridiculous to spend the kind of money for just 25 planes and some deliveries. Airbus is slacking on production anyway like Boeing. If SWA wanted to operate a 220, then the years long process of adding that type should have began years ago. JetBlue could be the most plausible, but they have Carl Icahn now. And JetBlue I hasn’t turned a profit since 2019(?), I can’t see how them absorbing our completely out of whack spaghetti structure would help anyone. It’s not like they need planes to turn a profit, they need to completely restructure what they are doing. The only options I can realistically see if they wanted to sell the place are selling to some foreign Asian/Indian airline that has capital and really needs 220s, or we just liquidate and a US airline picks up the scraps for Pennie’s on the dollar. There is no other airline here that would pay top dollar for what we have. I’m curious how we are even paying for fuel and paying employees since we lose 25 million a quarter still. Tom leaving gives me an eerie feeling about the future here