Ding ding ding!

Winner!

Jet America!

I'll agree to any merger if you throw in Ivar's clam chowder in a crew meal ( you folks get crew meals? we get blue-chips and culture)

I'm hoping this "talk up" of a potential merger ignites bigger major airlines to take action, Delta for Alaska and United for JetBlew.

Ahh, pure happiness?

No thanks from DAL. Acquisition maybe, but a merger would be disastrous. The current management at Angle Lake couldn't negotiate a deal to save their lives. Good Luck Eskimo's!!

Baja.

Yeah Alaska name staying? I swear these journalist are so short sighted, just cause the name was out longer it would stay? i doubt it. Good luck when half the carribean and Latam blue cities see a airplane with the name "Alaska" with an eskimo painted on it, Last thing they would think it Yeah thats the airplane from Bogota to Fort Lauderdale? :rolleyes:

JetBlue name...with Alaska management.

[Kinda like the way United/Continental and American/USAir did theirs...]

I think us jaded pilots are too close to this "Eskimo" problem to see it clearly. For example, "the Eskimo would never succeed in Hawaii," right? The flying public doesn't care about Barbara Bush on our tail.
They would select Norwegian to go from LAX to Singapore or Tokyo if it were cheaper. Point, compare, click. Discriminating frequent travelers will probably ditch Virgin for Jet Blue or Delta based on merits of the Alaska product. But the Eskimo wont be a deterrent while people and searching the web for fares.

Abandoning an established customer base after an acquisition doesn't strike me as good business sense. Everyone says that these guys "know how to make money" and not to worry. But so far, I haven't seen it.

Nope, as of lately they have been REALLY good at wasting it!
Custom uniforms, rebrand.....with 2 paint schemes, Brads 4 million dollar bonus , Minicucci’s multi million dollar bonus too (all for closing the Virgin Deal), hiring the village people to perform for employees......do I need to keep going?!?!

Hired The Village People? It looks like the merger is in the works already and you have some JB plants in management. That is a total move that JB management would do. . .and then put out a press release about it.