I'm calling it. We're geting bought.
#33
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Maybe it's time for a change? You can see why one might think that calling your airplane ”the jet” might be a little ostentatious. Definitely not necessary in 2018. Maybe we can work towards getting rid of that saying along with the crappy contract in 2019/2020/2021/ yougetthepoint. :thumbsup:
I don’t even work for your airline and I can’t, for the life of me, comprehend why you care in the least about the terms JET vs. AIRPLANE. Who cares? I mean, really? Who cares? Plane, jet, whatever.
Were you a hall monitor in junior high?
Maybe it's time for a change? You can see why one might think that calling your airplane ”the jet” might be a little ostentatious. Definitely not necessary in 2018. Maybe we can work towards getting rid of that saying along with the crappy contract in 2019/2020/2021/ yougetthepoint. :thumbsup:
Were you a hall monitor in junior high?
#34
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Maybe it's time for a change? You can see why one might think that calling your airplane ”the jet” might be a little ostentatious. Definitely not necessary in 2018. Maybe we can work towards getting rid of that saying along with the crappy contract in 2019/2020/2021/ yougetthepoint. :thumbsup:
“the jet” is a very common term at SWA too. I’m thinking it’s because it’s a jet...
Maybe it's time for a change? You can see why one might think that calling your airplane ”the jet” might be a little ostentatious. Definitely not necessary in 2018. Maybe we can work towards getting rid of that saying along with the crappy contract in 2019/2020/2021/ yougetthepoint. :thumbsup:
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I’m not saying it’s a sign of being bought, to me it’s a sign of the Bus going away, but if there is an acquisition, we will look back at this and it will be obvious that something was going on in hind sight.
Taking down a bunch of planes at once to paint in any month seems silly. Postponing all aircraft painting for what, 6 months now, has put them on an even tighter schedule to get it done (don’t forget that there is a royalty fee and deadline to get this livery off the planes). Meanwhile 737s are going down every month to get decals applied and new paint jobs. I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all, but to me it clearly indicates something. What that something is, we won’t know until we see it on the news.
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Yep, at this point it looks like they spent 4+ billion just to expand enough to try and not get bought but the stock price hasn’t recovered yet. And with the current administration allowing some huge merger/acquisitions, I don’t think Alaska is safe from being bought at all.
#37
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Yep, with the Sprint/T-Mobile anything is possible. But they would have to try to get it done soon as I don't see the current administration making it another 4 years.
Yep, at this point it looks like they spent 4+ billion just to expand enough to try and not get bought but the stock price hasn’t recovered yet. And with the current administration allowing some huge merger/acquisitions, I don’t think Alaska is safe from being bought at all.
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American and SWA could make a buy at AS and I bet the DOT wouldn’t bat an eye right now.
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UA would have a big problem in the northeast. They made the excellent decision to give up JFK, which DL kindly exploited. There would have to be big concessions between JFK and EWR. BOS would also probably take a hit.
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That’s exactly my point though. UAL was eyeing JB but would have previously had to divest too much to make it work. Imagine if they had a no restrictions green light to acquire JB because our administration is allowing it
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