Originally Posted by
benzoate
The value in another legacy airline acquiring JetBlue isn’t about immediate gains. JetBlue is an asset-heavy airline with established infrastructure and operational scale, making it a long-term strategic investment. The real lens here is 5, 10, even 15 years out—where buying that infrastructure today can limit competitors’ future growth and, in some cases, take them out of the equation entirely.
I get that, but I just think that smaller companies would benefit more since the big 4 are currently expanding without a merger. They’re already big, and getting bigger. It’s the smaller companies that are going to need to gain scale through a merger to survive.