View Poll Results: Which airline will Southwest merge/purchase?
JetBlue
57
21.27%
Alaska
61
22.76%
Spirit
75
27.99%
Frontier
28
10.45%
Suncountry
47
17.54%
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Which airline will Southwest merge/purchase?
10-23-2019, 07:50 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by 80emb145
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.
10-23-2019, 08:31 PM
#32
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Originally Posted by Peacock
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.
10-25-2019, 02:53 AM
#33
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As a temporizing measure, how practical would it be to keep the acquired airline operating under its own certificate with codeshares to fit southwests needs. Eg buy frontier and just have them fly transcons (that example may or may not be a good idea ut you get the idea). It’s a regional model I guess.
10-25-2019, 04:58 AM
#35
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Originally Posted by ZeroTT
As a temporizing measure, how practical would it be to keep the acquired airline operating under its own certificate with codeshares to fit southwests needs. Eg buy frontier and just have them fly transcons (that example may or may not be a good idea ut you get the idea). It’s a regional model I guess.
10-25-2019, 06:02 AM
#36
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Originally Posted by ZeroTT
As a temporizing measure, how practical would it be to keep the acquired airline operating under its own certificate with codeshares to fit southwests needs. Eg buy frontier and just have them fly transcons (that example may or may not be a good idea ut you get the idea). It’s a regional model I guess.
10-29-2019, 02:45 PM
#37
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Originally Posted by ZeroTT
As a temporizing measure, how practical would it be to keep the acquired airline operating under its own certificate with codeshares to fit southwests needs. Eg buy frontier and just have them fly transcons (that example may or may not be a good idea ut you get the idea). It’s a regional model I guess.
10-29-2019, 08:30 PM
#38
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Hopefully scope would prevent anything remotely resembling whipsaw in that scenario, and presumably both pilot groups would insist on SLI, if their scope didn't already specify that. Since major pilots would presumably not tolerate whipsaw, it would be more cost effective to merge, eliminate redundant overheat, and benefit from economy of scale.
What would they do about it? Quit? It’s like ‘major’ pilots selling scope, it’s bad until you can justify it to yourself.
10-30-2019, 09:28 AM
#40
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Originally Posted by Varsity
“Not tolerate whipsaw”
What would they do about it? Quit? It’s like ‘major’ pilots selling scope, it’s bad until you can justify it to yourself.
What would they do about it? Quit? It’s like ‘major’ pilots selling scope, it’s bad until you can justify it to yourself.
I lived in the whipsaw shadow for 17 years and it’s one of the things I appreciate about SWA, no scope worries.
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