Originally Posted by Wasatch Phantom

Because TPG is the major source of funding in AMR's proposal, I have a strong suspicion that any deal would be heavily skewed in TPG's favor; not AMR's and not JAL's. I'm fairly sure that TPG's track record won't be lost on JAL management, either.

While AMR may be able to give JAL more money up front, for JAL it would be a pact with the devil. TPG or AMR can't produce the synergistic feed that Skyteam can.

Change of subject:

A SWA and AS merger would be interesting to watch (from the sidelines). Career expectations as far as equipment would be identical. Neither would have any widebody expectations.

The history of SWA's SLI methodology is ugly, The Morris pilots basically got stapled and that's more or less what they were offering the Frontier pilots.

I don't think that would be acceptable to the AS pilots.