Originally Posted by Cholla6918

I hear your points about HA’s model being outdated and Alaska buying at the right moment, but if the international authorities, slots, and brand really weren’t worth acquiring, what would you recommend Alaska should have done instead? Simply staying “fine the way it was” doesn’t create new growth opportunities, and those assets aren’t something you can just buy when convenient. Even if HA had operational problems, the underlying value of what they controlled still existed — so what alternative path would’ve realistically produced a better long-term outcome for AS?

Being bought by DL or UA. AS is a niche carrier desperately trying to reinvent itself. The AS pilots would have been better off waiting to get bought.

And on the labor side, if the merger is as lopsided or misguided as you suggest, what do you think can actually be accomplished by opposing the integration path we’re on now? We still need a unified pilot group and predictable costs for any plan — good or bad — to function. So what’s the practical strategy that gets pilots to a better place from here, rather than just pointing out why the current direction is flawed?