Originally Posted by REF 5

Any time you do a merger people will lose jobs. Whether it's through a severance or just plain old fashion elimination of a duplicate job. It's all about synergies. Just remember, two airlines airlines just merged a few months ago. Managements job is to argue the merits of what a merger will bring IF the DOJ objects. Spirit never argued in court that their existence was threatened. If they argued in court that they would go Ch11, the outcome may have been different. The judge made the decision based on the DOJ arguements of bad for consumers(based on a old law) vs good for consumers that Jetblue and Spirit made. Nothing in court was ever discussed about a threat to the enterprise existence. Meanwhile on the the other side of the country, HA/ALK are now one company. It's all about the arguments you make in court.