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05-03-2013 | 11:29 AM
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Why did SWA buy AirTran? To gain entrance to ATL, only to downgrade that hub to a focus city status as is the case with SWA cities? To take in a separate fleet type (717) only so they could lease them all out to Delta? Just the addition of a few dozen 737s? Or is it that they wanted to take one more competitor out?
Mark my words, now that the legacy carriers have all merged down to just 3 (AA/DL/UA), the next consolidation will be at the LCC level. Between Virgin, JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant. You will see two of these hook up in a merger. This won't be done for any other reason than necessity to better compete with the legacies.
Mark my words, now that the legacy carriers have all merged down to just 3 (AA/DL/UA), the next consolidation will be at the LCC level. Between Virgin, JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant. You will see two of these hook up in a merger. This won't be done for any other reason than necessity to better compete with the legacies.
I think you're right though, I can see consolidations between those five, but my guess would be some sort of Frontier/Allegiant mix, rather than the others. They're all too remarkedly different to really integrate. I wouldn't imagine Virgin, JetBlue, or Spirit would merge with any of the others. Getting bought out could be a different story though, but I would imagine not for a LONG time, not whole they're staying solvent or in the case of JetBlue and Spirit profitable.
ALL of this is just my extremely uneducated guess.
05-05-2013 | 07:26 PM
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05-05-2013 | 08:27 PM
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Special ordered by Indian Airlines, Air India then acquired those A/C when Indian was merged into Air India. I agree, it looks weird. The same feeling you get when looking at some Russian planes.
05-08-2013 | 10:24 AM
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05-08-2013 | 11:00 AM
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I honestly don't feel the legacies think of the LCCs as a threat yet. I would think they'd be more afraid of competition from Southwest on a domestic basis than the LCCs.
I think you're right though, I can see consolidations between those five, but my guess would be some sort of Frontier/Allegiant mix, rather than the others. They're all too remarkedly different to really integrate. I wouldn't imagine Virgin, JetBlue, or Spirit would merge with any of the others. Getting bought out could be a different story though, but I would imagine not for a LONG time, not whole they're staying solvent or in the case of JetBlue and Spirit profitable.
ALL of this is just my extremely uneducated guess.
I think you're right though, I can see consolidations between those five, but my guess would be some sort of Frontier/Allegiant mix, rather than the others. They're all too remarkedly different to really integrate. I wouldn't imagine Virgin, JetBlue, or Spirit would merge with any of the others. Getting bought out could be a different story though, but I would imagine not for a LONG time, not whole they're staying solvent or in the case of JetBlue and Spirit profitable.
ALL of this is just my extremely uneducated guess.
05-09-2013 | 03:57 PM
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05-09-2013 | 03:59 PM
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Believe it or not, I actually think this is a good place to work, I have been treated well so far. I just find it amazing how far apart the treatment of employees (pilots specifically) is compared to the treatment of customers.
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