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Old 08-18-2025 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by RiddleEagle18
JetBlue absolutely wanted this when first announced. They spent over a billion dollars total between stock holder prepayments, standing up transition teams, lawyers and breakup fees. It put JetBlue in an awful financial position.


Now come closing arguments a full 2 years later, 60 downed NEO airplanes later and a post Covid travel bounce over, did they still want it? I would say not at that point. However when it was first agreed to they absolutely wanted it.

Had the DOJ just approved it on the Alaska-HI timeline we would have been well into integration by the time the economics changed.

and the combined company would've probably been bankrupt.....
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Old 08-18-2025 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by 8JRMfortheyear
Multiple have gone through the pipeline.
Ok, you said "...most are lost". Let's say your "mutiple pilot" means 80 pilots that you personally know. We have almost 5000. How do you come to the conclusion that most are lost in the juice?

Like every pilot when they start at the majors, they are excited. After a year or so, you know where you are. Some are also territorial. Same happens here bud.

You also see time and time again how other Airline pilots come here and talk about their company as if they are the CEO.
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Old 08-19-2025 | 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by 8JRMfortheyear
My conspiracy theory is, b6 paid the 500 million to wipe us out of the map.
Could be true, but no pilot Juicy or otherwise had anything to do with it. I hope you all have a long and prosperous career whatever color plane you fly. Yellow, silver, white, brown, purple or dare I say blue.
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Old 08-19-2025 | 08:57 AM
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On a different note … Frontier really wants us gone … this is aimed directly at us.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/front...140000085.html
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Old 08-19-2025 | 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by emergencyexit
On a different note … Frontier really wants us gone … this is aimed directly at us.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/front...140000085.html
We did the same thing to WN when they announced their bag things.

The company has been really pushing this whole rewards/sign ups thing on customers the last 6 months or so.

Our marketing team has also made some choice decisions regarding their ads lately as well. They dont care about others as much as us frontline workers do.
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Old 08-19-2025 | 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by flier320
and the combined company would've probably been bankrupt.....
And probably too big to fail. Heck GS financed 100% of the Spirit purchase. Some bank would’ve stepped in and given JB more money
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Old 08-20-2025 | 04:13 AM
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https://aviationweek.com/air-transpo...f-kirby-depart


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Old 08-20-2025 | 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by spooldup
We did the same thing
it always cracks me up when blue collar labor uses “we” to talk about management decisions, as if labor has a shred of input. This misplaced sense of ownership is misplaced and counterproductive.
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Old 08-20-2025 | 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by StoneQOLdCrazy
it always cracks me up when blue collar labor uses “we” to talk about management decisions, as if labor has a shred of input. This misplaced sense of ownership is misplaced and counterproductive.
Cool story bro.
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Old 08-20-2025 | 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by StoneQOLdCrazy
it always cracks me up when blue collar labor uses “we” to talk about management decisions, as if labor has a shred of input. This misplaced sense of ownership is misplaced and counterproductive.
well it’s certainly always “we” when it comes to contract negotiations, and why “we” can’t have nice things.

but when management gets 3.75 million bonus when the company is in a financially precarious position, “we” is nowhere to be found.
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