Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
UAL is off the table as a merger partner. United already looked at the NK planes and its too time consuming and costly to reconfigure all the planes, especially since our seat supplier can barely keep up with our new planes and reconfiguring older planes, not to mention the debt and other integration issues.
Also with the Jetblue partnership, which was just granted full approval by the DOT, is going to be the focus going forward and not any acquisitions.
I completely agree that United has zero interest in us. To your other points.. didn’t we have 2 airlines in the past 3 years make offers to buy us ? One of them offering a whopping 3.1 billion knowing full well the cost of new seats, paint, integration headaches as well as our debt situation? Clearly these two airlines, knowing the headaches saw enough value to even get into a bidding war. Who’s to say someone else doesn’t see the same now ?
all I’m saying is if someone sees enough long term value for the right price they’ll make a move . Pilots are less needed now than 3 years ago, and Boeing just pumped out more planes than they have in 6 years.. so the dynamics have changed certainly. But if you offered me a totally dilapidated house in a sought after neighborhood at a bargain basement price .. no matter the headaches I face .. if I see long term value after the renovations.. ill snag it.