Ok here's a new way of looking at this. There is blood in the water. Midwest has been bleeding for sometime now and everyone is now itching to get what little market they had left in mke. Airtran, soutwest, delta all have ramped up service in mke. So now republic owns Midwest and is putting down money on frontier. So southwest sees an opportunity to hammer on them some more. Get republic to bid higher on frontier so now they don't have that money to build Midwest. Possible?
Either way let republic burn!!!