Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
My guess is lower domestic growth next year to please Wall Street. That would also be the reason we stopped hiring overnight. I think we were planning on 6% and they adjusted it to 3% so that we can keep prices high. I don't think it has anything to do with ALK. If we announced tomorrow we were merging it wouldn't make a difference on staffing until 2012.
Even if we merged/bought AS they have very little overlap with us. Their jets would more than likely just keep doing what they are doing, or at a minimum the routes would not be shrunk.