Originally Posted by
Lincoln Osiris
You don't know if the McCaskill bond clause will get triggered anymore than I do. You are in here preaching certain doom and gloom when you don't know anymore than the rest of us. Everyone here is very aware of the possible situations. "Someone can take the planes, they don’t have to take the pilots. There’s no good reason to either." - Get out of here with that crap and have some respect.
MB is only getting triggered if a hypothetical acquiring carrier wants to trigger MB, for their own purposes.
So approach it from that perspective... who has a motive to want to bring the crews over with seniority/longevity intact, and then do an SLI (and maybe JCBA).
That might happen if they're going to operate the planes as configured and painted... somebody who wants new paint and cabins has time to hire/upgrade their own crews.
Wildcard is SWA... who knows, they might want a bus operating cert. and turnkey package. But even that's a bit far-fetched.