Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
To use RA's words, There is no point in acquiring Alaska when we already get all the benefits of ownership!
...unless of course someone else wants those rights, or Alaska wants more.
Hoping a $50 million penalty will keep ALK in our camp forever is like hoping your college girlfriend will never change after graduation. Instead, she invariably must become Mrs. ACL, or Mrs. Someone-else.
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And of course, maybe AMR isn't laughing as hard at our little JAL joke as we are, and will return the favor with ALK. Such pranksters, they are!