Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Agreed.
Just like AMR buying TWA to counter a UAL/U marraige that never happened. It cost them 800 mil for all the purchasing and another 800 mil to dump most everything including most of their fleet, routes and hubs. All they kept was some of their equipment and employees, most of which they furloughed.
But I sincerely hope that even AMR wouldn't be stupid enough to allow their precious rep (or so THEY believe) to be placed in the hands of Mesa and that was the crux of my assumption of the absence of COMPLETE stupidity.
Let's hope so on that assumption, b/c I am thinking the same as well.
As many of us have seen in the recent years, it's not always the codeshare/or regional partner that does it the best who gets the 'flying'. Sometimes 'they' (Execs/BODs/shareholders) want the cheapest means to make it work in the lean present day market. Make no bits about it, the cheapest bid on the regional flying contracts can often (not always) lead to those awarded to do the flying for various mainline carriers.
When it comes to carriers like the one you mentioned earlier, it's easy to see how mgt can go ahead and "step over the dollar to save the penny".
Not good.