View Poll Results: Which airline will Southwest merge/purchase?

JetBlue

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Alaska

22.76%

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Frontier

10.45%

Suncountry

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10-23-2019, 01:05 PM

#21

Silver02ex

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Spirit just announced an order for 100 Airbus with option for 50. Who knows what kind of impact it will have.

10-23-2019, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Peacock

There are aircraft all over the world that can be purchased.

Not on 121 certificates. Have they been maintained to 121 requirements? Can it be documented to the FAA's satisfaction? If not, you pretty much have to do a D-check and replace all life-limited parts which cannot be accounted for.

New-ish gently used late-model planes are a hot commodity, they don't stay on the shelf long and some foriegn airlines have less of a regulatory burden when it comes to bringing on planes from elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by CALPilotToo

Buying an airline to get airplanes is a classic case of pilots thinking businessmen think like pilots.

I've been a businessman, and don't think at all like some pilots who know nothing else. Buying an airline for pilots, now that's pilot fantasy (right now, but can't utterly rule it out in five years or so).

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Buy an airline to eliminate a competitor, or to get gates/slots/markets. Buying an airline to get planes is like a firm buying another firm to get their office furniture.

No, airlines use the same office furniture as any other company. Jets are not furniture, they are THE major capital investment in this industry.

10-23-2019, 01:47 PM

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Compass.

Filler

10-23-2019, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Peacock

Buy an airline to eliminate a competitor, or to get gates/slots/markets. Buying an airline to get planes is like a firm buying another firm to get their office furniture.

Didn’t know you can buy airplanes from a catalogue with next day delivery.

10-23-2019, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Waggy122

Didn’t know you can buy airplanes from a catalogue with next day delivery.

Yeah, it’s easier to buy an entire airline while all airlines are printing money.

10-23-2019, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Peacock

Yeah, it’s easier to buy an entire airline while all airlines are printing money.

Sorry. Your furniture analogy was horrible but RickAir already took care of that.

10-23-2019, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Waggy122

Sorry. Your furniture analogy was horrible but RickAir already took care of that.

No, it’s about right. Buying an airline right now is a monumentally stupid idea, and doing it specifically to get planes is even more ridiculous.

10-23-2019, 03:14 PM

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No, Delta is buying up all the Miatas they can lay their hands on.

Good! Because no matter what anyone says, they are true sports cars.

10-23-2019, 06:11 PM

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No matter the purchase or where the plane came from, mx has their own ops specs that have been specifically certified for each airline. You can’t transfer an aircraft from delta to swa and fly it without swa mx go from nose to tail. I can’t speak if that would be a d check, but it wouldn’t take merely hours either.