Originally Posted by
khergan
Considering UA leadership has now publicly stated they want to hire in the thousands by end of 2026, it doesn't make any sense to merge with anyone. The internal growth they can achieve by hiring people at year 1 negates any reason to merge and take pilots at the top of the scale from elsewhere.
One of the things said was that scheduled deliveries would equal JetBlue’s fleet every 2-3 years and that there was no need to even entertain the idea of a costly and time consuming merger. They just want to chip their way back into JFK.