Originally Posted by
gloopy
The "compromise" is probably how much charity we will be forced to gift SWA and maybe JB (but mostly SWA). They are "most favored nation" in this deal IMHO.
That crap may have flew 6 months ago, but now with the Airtran merger that argument is mute. Perhaps the new UAL/CAL should have held out as well as opposed to offering up EWR slots. Now they have to compete with the sum of both a AAI/SWA combined presence in EWR.
It still is funny to me that a deal to swap landing slots came under more scrutiny than two major legacy carriers merging as a direct result of the merger being more willing to appease the SWA gods.
Glad we pushed back on this, hopefully it gets resolved within reason.