yall should buy SkyWest and make a giant mess for DL, AA, UA, AS since LCC/ ULCC mergers aren't going through

could you imagine the **** show? Cancell all the regional feed they do and it would cripple the others overnight. I'm not sure why it hasnt been done already

Would they staple?

I could only imagine the team of lawyers that would be coming after that was annouced.

It would be an interesting chess move to play. When the legacies predictably move heaven and earth to block something like that, it's an easy precedent to flip back on their heads the next time one of them wants to gobble up some competition.

Alas, we play checkers here, not chess.

Because all 4 of their “partners” would go crying to the Federal Government. If they can’t get a JetBlue/Spirit merger through the finish line how’d you think that speculated merger plays out. Literally zero chance with any administration. Also, all 4 partners (AAL, DL, UA, AS) have clauses in their contracts with SkyWest to block the potential for a sale via heavy financial penalties. It would be entertaining if Southwest attempted though. The amount of lawsuits being filed in a single day…

It's simpler than that and has nothing to do with blocking a potential sale. SkyWest has signed a contract to do X work, and if they fail to perform such work, they have to pay Y penalties. SWA could, in theory, buy SKW and continue to operate the feed and not face any penalties.

But no, nothing about selling. That's why regionals can, and do, buy each other with some regularity. They just continue the feed as directed in the contract.

exactly, then when the contracts come do, don't continue them. No way the others could fill the void nor the mainline cover the amount of flying the regional does. 50% of delta's flyingnis regional.

It would never happen but it's weird to think of how something so simple could cripple the industry

Oh how I’ve missed that “warrior spirit”!

If you have been around the airline industry as long as you claim, then the only snark was in your original question about something so obvious as Southwest's cheapness.

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