Spirit wasn’t in bankruptcy for the first 2 merger attempts either and I know that doesn’t change where we’re at now but if we did have an ISL with JetBlue there would plenty of ****ed off pilots thinking they got screwed. With hindsight we’d be way better off in every regard.
You don’t know how AirTran would’ve come out of a blocked merger with Southwest. There have been a lot of people royally f’ed in this industry, it’s weird how some AirTran pilots won’t let it go this many years later, despite being at a very large company that is extremely well paid.