Originally Posted by rickair7777

I can almost assure you that AS BOD/management will not sell the airline or subjugate themselves to another... they've had an oportunity or two to do that in recent history and declined, they turned down DL FFS and may have also turned down UA. The new (seemingly competent) management team is young, and rooted in SEA. BOD members also tend to have relevant local geographic roots (PNW, Alaska, and now HI).

For B6 to acquire AS as things stand today would necessitate B6 coming from a position of amazing strength, ie a hostile takeover.