Originally Posted by captnate702

I hope you are right Chapi but I will remain skeptical of management actually wanting to get a TA quickly. The merger is announcement is an absolute gift and every industry insider believes the regulatory process has no chance of messing this up because the only “competitive” implication is what to do ATW/RSW…one single route.

this will have absolute zero impact on pricing. So this deal, by all accounts is gonna close quickly. Two tiny airlines with no overlap whatsoever. Even Minny politicos aren’t screaming about it because Allegiant is better than some other airline that’s gonna destroy the MSP market.

so where does that leave us? With VERY little time to get a deal done which allows management to “pretend” to show some effort and bargain in good faith but not actually offer anything.

we will see, but management has 100% of the leverage and NOT doing a deal will be what the bean counters want to do. The savings in pilot pay will give them their sacred Op Margin: their one and true worship.

I just don’t see it but hope I am wrong. I hope management has learned that to truly be a big boy airline you cannot always pay pilots the bare minimum. The FAs seem to love their deal and management could have delayed that for years and kept them at rock bottom pay but they didn’t. So I’m open to the possibility I could be wrong, but I am very skeptical.

I’m rambling rambling so I hope you are right Chapi