B6 Merger Poll
 

Now post election which merger is most likely ?

Southwest Buying Jetblue ?
American Buying Jetblue ?
Alaska Buying Jetblue ?
Jetblue merging with Frontier & NK

If I were a legacy CEO I would want to nip these mergers before they start to snowball into another big competitor. NK/F9 and AS/B6 today, then those two combine in a few years, and thats a serious threat.

Instead, I wonder if we see the legacies kick off this consolidation round with something like UA/NK, DL/F9, AA/B6, WN/AS

Interesting observation ! I feel like it will be hard for us to go against all these big boys alone.

E) None of the above

We’ll hear about it in 10 years how they dropped the ball on deciding who will take over and the surviving of the brand. While everyone finds their match we will focus on acquiring Cape Air and Silver to further demonstrate our commitment to our NE and FL cities.

Not really a threat for the Big 3. Combining smaller airlines might be good for them, but its doesn't change the total number of seats or flights. Southwest is massive compare to any of those small airlines and they aren't even really competitors to the Big 3 since they have no International footprint and they serve mostly point-to-point markets.

B6/NK was supported by AA and UA CEOs, mostly because it removed a competitor from the market. One less airline to deal with. No legacy airlines will see a "serious threat" from any merger of ULCCs.

"Refreshed pass riding perks" coming soon = One World Alliance?

OR

RTP = Charging for Mint seats again.

The larger companies have enough money and space to wait us out while we slowly lose market share into oblivion.

If I were a betting man I would say either Pan Am or Eastern!!! Mark my words

F. United (well... not "F-United", but you know what I mean)