It's sad to think that this is what it could take for some to realize their own value.

SWA/AirTran and JetBlue will gain the most from DCA and LGA slots that will potentially be shed in order to allow the AA/US deal to pass anti-trust concerns.

If there was a lot of overlap of routes between AA/US out of LGA/DCA, I would say yes. I don't think there is. Maybe a few slots, but not a bunch probably.

It's even worse to realize what your value is, but be too afraid to even ask for it.

I don't think it's overlap, I think t's the percentage of departures that they will be concerned about. At least it was for the slot swap.

From another web board
 

Subject: Notes from APA Meeting

Name stays AA
HQ in DFW
US comes to Oneworld (hurts UAL)
Pay banding
Starting point is current green book.
5.5% raise on date of signing
3% / yrs 2-6, then avg of UAL/DAL
A319 no longer a sep payband
Vac goes to 3+40/day. Better accrual
Hard freeze & 14% DC Plan
PBS. US West pilots love it. Well managed. Lines 83. P/u to 90. Keep current rigs.
Scope committee is "giddy" with what is offered. Parker doesn't understand code share. He wants the revenue. Max Dom code share = 4% of total asm's.
Keeping AA's Boeing/Bus order. Very excited to get 787.
Unsure about AE. Parker wants to see books then decide. Hates 50 seaters. Prob convert most 319 orders to 320/321's.
Med costs will go from 14% to 17% (I think 1113 had it going to 26%.
Not a sure thing, but APA seems quite confident. No timeline given, more than 2 mos, possibly by end of summer. Horton is said to be steaming mad.
Seniority may go to expedited arbitration. Expect percentile in type over any DOH (aka DAL/NWA)
US East guys will get about 25-30% raise out of this.

Fixed your post.

Not to mention AA/US would still be very anemic in JFK even if they fully merged without a single divesture. They would need a significantly larger JFK presence and SWA will need a significantly larger NYC presence going forward. Gate, terminal and slots locked down tight at all the airports in the "real" NYC market and the only way in is to buy or fragment JB. There is no other viable way. Think about it. Very interesting scenarios ahead.

HI makes a ton of sense. AL makes sense but would be a much larger SLI integration not to mention their insanely bloated stock price due in larg part to Delta gutting its own flying and hiring AS as their west coast regional. But if the price could be worked out, it would make sense as well. JB OTOH makes zero sense.

DL would get all that capacity, risk gutting the DL pilot group with anything close to a relative integration, then pull down a very large part of the capacity they just got with DL pilots taking the vast majority of the brunt of stagnation and/or furloughs and the company being forced to divest what they just overpaid to get.

To any extent DL gets involved with JB would far more likely be in a 2 or 3 way fragmentation because what DL wants and needs is only a small part of JB. Maybe the terminal and about a quarter of their capacity, if that.

AK=Alaska, AL=Alabama.

War Tide!!!!!

or is it Roll Eagle?