Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
Virgin/Alaska was 6 years ago and that was a much easier pill to swallow than Hawaiian will be.
Originally Posted by
PineappleXpres
The Airbus phase out is not the pill swallowing timeline. Wouldn’t it just be SOC? Synergies realized and single platform seems like the end point from a business standpoint. The measure of this merger won’t be everything Hawaiian swallowed and pooped out 737s.
I was estimating when they might have the bandwidth to even entertain another M&A. I could not see that happening in less than five years, could be even longer or never.
HAL will never be fully "digested" like a VX was, obviously too complicated.