JetBlue absolutely wanted this when first announced. They spent over a billion dollars total between stock holder prepayments, standing up transition teams, lawyers and breakup fees. It put JetBlue in an awful financial position.


Now come closing arguments a full 2 years later, 60 downed NEO airplanes later and a post Covid travel bounce over, did they still want it? I would say not at that point. However when it was first agreed to they absolutely wanted it.

Had the DOJ just approved it on the Alaska-HI timeline we would have been well into integration by the time the economics changed.