AA made an offer to merge
 

At least according to Bloomberg. I’d be interested to know more of those details. Ben and team running a combined AA could be interesting. Isom and team could screw up a 2 car parade.

what kind of cars?

Hahahahahaha

Miatas of course. Is there any other?

If you though our finances were bad with HAL...

They’d be even worse with Jet Blue.

B6 is bad, but less of it.

AA isn't as bad, but they have a whole lot more of it... an industry hiccup at the wrong time would see billions flying out the door in short order.

Admittedly I don’t want it for seniority purposes—flew with way too many 23 year old FO’s at OO fresh of OE with CJOs to Hawaiian while I had my dream CJO at AA. I’d probably get shafted at least a few hundred seniority numbers.

The article from Bloomberg specifically quotes, “shared revenue” proposal, not merger.

I will admit the merger would create one hell of an opportunity for explosive WB growth. You’d have LAX-SFO-SEA as a gateway to the pacific. Under the right management team it could be something special.

By explosive growth, you mean, in about 10 years because the wide body order book is backed up about almost a decade. And I will be a long past age 65 by then. But you know who will be in place to fly the wide bodies? Those formally “23 year-old first officers from OO fresh off of OE.”
Some guys get all the luck

FYI AA has options for more Dreamliners. I can’t remember the amount—believe it’s around 30. And yeah this industry involves a lot of luck.