Originally Posted by
brakechatter
The difference is that you won't see any of us go crying to the moderators, and then simultaneously go overboard with the very insults they whined about.
Just another difference between legacy and other carriers.
Nobody is discounting anything. My prediction is that fares in Atlanta will stay the same or rise. Frankly, I can't stand either AirTran or SWA, but at least SWA will drive the high class play back home where they belong, while increasing its costs massively.
The winners in this transaction are Delta and the Air Tan pilots.
The best part of this is "turnabout".
The DAL pilots aren't the only one's with tremendous egos. In fact, I'd rank them a distant second.
It's already started. The innane chatter of "what you bring to the table" and "windfalls" and "better bases" and all of that nonesense that goes along with any SLI.
The best part? NONE OF IT MATTERS. The AirTran guys bring a huge amount of leverage with their position, both with successorship langauge and financial resources, and they have the law behind them. The process will be followed, and you can be sure there will be plenty of sputtering fussbudgets claiming otherwise.
Welcome to the world of mergers folks.
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