Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I beleive that everyone wishes that were true. I would love to buy a fleet of 737/320's or the like and do all of that flying, who wouldn't? I have tried to explain the reasoning behind the decision and I guess we can shoot the messenger. So be it.
Given the Alaska Marketing agreement in section one, the solution that also poses issues is a merger. Other than that, do you think that you are going to buy the company off on this deal? Not likely.
Push for a percentage of that revenue. Push for limits on the code. Those are ways to solve that. I do not like them taking more of our flying, just like you. Go read their agreement in our section one, and offer solutions!
here's my solution:
let's start putting together our SLI team and get the process rolling
based on RAs recent comments there is no doubt in my mind we'll be merging with AK
It's a no brainer business case: AK has 1B cash on hand and a market cap of 1.4B that's 2-3 777s to buy an entire airline and we already have passed the FTC anticompetitive test with our JV
my guess is RA is stalling for cover from the UAL-XXX merger.
Also we will be inflicting maximum pain on AA because AK-AA are also codeshare partners...
Cheers
George