Originally Posted by
Sink r8
...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!
Perhaps that's the reason for the JAL emphasis. If AMR has to pony up $500m they will be tied up working the JAL deal and perhaps not have the money to bid on Alaska.