Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

rj777 wrote:

Noise wrote:

Who here thinks AS will gobble up B6 down the road, forming a formidable competitor to the Big 4?

Not if AS wants to stick to their "Proudly all Boeing" tagline.

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

Well I assume now Spirit can go running into the hands of Frontier and two money losing airlines will somehow make a profitable airline. Pretty sure that's what the B6/NK merger was tying to do...... It's so strange to me that people are acting as if B6 is making money hand over fist when the fact ...

Re: B6 NK Merger blocked

Big win for the Biden Admin. Next up: AS-HA. Big win for Delta. I believe Delta and other Wall Street people (Bankers, Investment Houses) are behind the scenes pulling the strings. Most companies do that on the political side, of course, this administration can be bought and paid for. Absolute Powe...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

I was very much in the camp of there being a VC who would swoop in before Chapter 11 for Spirit, but TD Cowen coming out today rattling my confidence there:

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

I fear bankruptcy for Spirit is written on the wall. They have already stated they have revenue problems and issues with the current LCC model, they just sold owned assets for cash, plus the recent pilot contracts at other carriers and the Airbus engine issues are cratering expenses. None of these ...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

I don't see a scenario where there aren't truly dire financial times ahead for both airlines. The breakup fee alone will cripple B6's already crunched cash flow, and Spirit had hitched their horse to the opposite outcome.

Re: AS to acquire HA; operate as separate brand.

Huge news and well played AS. WN was asleep at the wheel on this. Very best of luck to both AS and HA I think SWA is smart not touching that at all. Hawaiian has been losing money for a long time. Hawaiian yields are in the toilet. Object of the game is make money. IMO there is nothing that SWA cou...

Re: Taliban rapidly taking over Afghanistan.

AirPacific747 wrote:

At least ten US service members killed according to latest news now. This will have to be revenged.

Re: DL BOS hub

Nothing below 200-250 departures is a hub. Just because they use that term for marketing reasons, it does not make an airport a hub or focus city. United and American have much stricter standards for what they call a hub. Huh? If an airline calls it a hub across say external channels, it is, by the...

Re: Texas House Republicans vote to track down absent Democrats and arrest them if necessary

Are you allowed to drive a car without DL? Nope. Can you get food assistance without ID? Nope Can you get child assistance without ID? Nope. Can you buy a cellphone without ID? Nope Can you travel outside of the country without a passport? Nope. Can you get a payment plan without ID? Nope. Can you ...

Re: US Women's National Soccer Team Loses Equality Case

The US women's national team is way better/more successful then the men's team so yeah they should be paid equal too or even more then the men's team. The women's team have 4 world cup titles and 4 Olympic golds. What have the men's team won? The answer is a bronze medal 90 years ago. This doesn't ...

Re: DL drops Cape Town from JNB-ATL schedule

This thread reminds me of the infinite number of discussions we had on why the 359 couldn’t serve LAX-SYD, and that DL was so upset they were about to buy the 787 and toss the 359 to the curb. Literally tens of thousands of hours went into those discussions. How quickly they were forgotten when DL ...

Re: The GOP has owned the Lie and ousted Liz Cheney from leadership

The GOP has completed the transition from political party to religious cult, in which the only objective is to get as far up Trump's colon as possible. I bid them good luck with that strategy... It's absolutely breathtaking. And the kicker is a lot of these people, like Senator Kennedy, and Rep. St...

Re: OAG Changes 2/2/2021:AA DABPHL;AS Cuts EWRSJC,LAXORD,PHLSFO,PAE-BOI/PDX,More;F9 Axes 31 Routes;SY Expands;UA SJT;WN

I agree with you @Enliria, re JFK. I think AS can make SEA, PDX, and SAN work, essentially doing that flying fro AA (AA would likely never start JFK-PDX and has suspended SEA and SAN a while back for a number of reasons). AS does not offer a compelling product on LAX/SFO where competition is fierce...

Re: United upgrading in COS

Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region will be one of, if not the top tourism destination in the US this year. Huh? What? Ever heard of Florida, Hawaii, Alaska, Yellowstone or Yosemite? I have... And clearly you've never heard of the Springs. Do some research my friend and come visit our wonder...

Re: DTW Detroit Aviation Thread - 2021

We have a winner here and this is why DTW needs a TATL LCC competitor. It really perplexes me that the airport choses to ignore this fact and doesn't address that very large void when every other market the size of Detroit has at least one low cost affordable TATL carrier. How is it that, especiall...

Re: Why no second commercial airport for Atlanta?

What most people miss is the increased competition a second airport might bring. The situation at ATL makes it very difficult for an airline to enter that market on any scale because the deck is stacked against them. We always seem to think for some reason that what's good for a certain business or...

Re: Presidential Age Limit in the USA

AirframeAS wrote:

There are reasons for positions mentioned above

AirframeAS wrote:

I don't think being POTUS is a big of a deal.

Re: Presidential Age Limit in the USA

Age discrimination is against the law on every level here in the U.S. This should end the thread right here. And yet there is a mandatory retirement age for pilots, and most Fortune 500 companies have an age cap of 65 for CEOs, so I'm not sure what your point is. There should absolutely be an age c...

Re: Is Deplatforming Conservatives Strenthening Them?

Would it be fair to suggest that taking people off of mainstream sites like Twitter and Facebook for certain views will just push these people to share idea's and plans on sites outside of the public eye? I'd prefer to be able to see what they're up to than to push them underground. Not me, I want ...

Re: "DR" Jill Biden

I worked for a large, urban school system and most of the Ed.ds and Ph.ds wanted to be called "doctor". My view was that if they couldn't stitch me up or diagnose me, they weren't a doctor. So what of dentists then? Ever had a wisdom tooth extracted? Dentists are good with the sutures. Ch...

Re: "DR" Jill Biden

johns624 wrote:

I worked for a large, urban school system and most of the Ed.ds and Ph.ds wanted to be called "doctor". My view was that if they couldn't stitch me up or diagnose me, they weren't a doctor.

Re: 2020 US Senate Race Thread

Lost in the hubbub of the 2020 Presidential Election and the nonsense that the soon to be ex-President in spewing was the fact that the bookies pretty much nailed the exact outcome of the 2020 election: every single state including Georgia and Arizona. Using that as my rationale behind putting stock...

Re: Updated: Biden officially secures enough electors to become president

casinterest wrote:

Wow, look like Biden won again, Barr resigned, and the Right wing Anti American contingent will continue their grief into January.

Re: Updated: Biden officially secures enough electors to become president

From a tweet 'How Trump Wins' https://twitter.com/Eyconik/status/1338228261483110403? Point 6. The Election Rejection - On January 6th Congress will convene to count the electoral votes. At this time the sitting VP, Mike Pence, has the ability to challenge by refusing to accept the votes from state...

Re: Updated: A COVID-19 vaccine candidate works!

Let's say that you take a vaccine. This is what your life looks like from the moment you take that first dose. First dose on January 1st. You can't come out of sheltering for the first 2 weeks because you haven't built up the immunity. After the first 2 weeks you start building up immunity, but you...

Re: Updated: Biden officially secures enough electors to become president

It is ridiculous and a tragedy that so many GOP representatives do not respect the constitution or other states voting methods. Hopefully the Supreme Court flat out rejects this bogus case, and hopefully the voters in those states can sue these RNC organizations for attempting to violate their cons...

Re: What if John McCain Became President in 2000

Presumably no Citizens United ruling, which would fundamentally have politics in a much better place today.

Re: Pres-Elect Biden's proposed cabinet and WH top staff picks

I love women like AOC having power and I hope CNN and MSNBC have her on as much as possible. She really makes it easy to see the Dems for what they are. She isn't a force she is a zealot who comes from a far left district like her fellow squad members and don't represent most of the party. Keep yel...

Re: How Both Major US Political Parties can win going forward

Democrats: - Convince a few million coastal liberals to take their voting habits with them to predominantly sunbelt cities in traditionally red states like Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, Charlotte, Raleigh, and various cities in Florida where the fortunes they made in tech or some other liberal-leaning...

Re: Should China pay reparations for the economic damage from the virus ?

I haven’t decided myself whether this is appropriate, while I don’t believe COVID was created ‘in a lab’ it does appear the Chinese government went out of their way to hide the extent of the problem, that and other actions or the lack of them contributed to the worldwide spread of the virus While t...

Re: COVID-19 Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread - Q4 2020

I tried to start a thread on this but it got taken down. Now that a new administration is taking over, how do you think Biden would handle the current COVID-19 travel restrictions that Trump put into place (there are current restrictions on China, Iran, almost all of Europe, and Brazil)? I don't ex...

Re: What is wrong with South American capitalism/ capitalism in general?

This seems not irrelevant to the discussion: ... If I copy/ paste your URL from the image into the adress bar I get this message: "Your client does not have permission to get URL /proxy/i7AdtQrBDLOEk5RYzzJUSkrjl0pr2whNGAFmERyrIo3m9V0CbbOki9m6pRGMycoO-E4autZHVVdHuLTmdW4w37mGH0lsWXF6BV9CIUZYLvcc...

Re: COVID-19 Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread - Q4 2020

This is bad territory for airlines who will already be getting their rear ends beat into oblivion for the next 2-3 years to step into. Simply just let countries step into the trap and require this for entry that way you can more or less pass off the blame. By doing this they themselves become the t...

Re: QF CEO Alan Joyce: COVID vaccination will be required to fly

There will be a period when rich people with good healthcare are vaccinated and less fortunate people are not. Seems like this isn’t a great look for that period. I believe, at least in the United States, it's been assured already that COVID-19 vaccination will be free of charge for most. ( Source ...

QF CEO Alan Joyce: COVID vaccination will be required to fly

Can't say this is surprising, and as Joyce points out this will likely be the forthcoming norm at the very least for international travel. In an interview Monday, Joyce said that required vaccination for international travel would be 'a necessity' when vaccines are available. He went on to say "...

Re: Donald Trump Jr. Tests Positive for COVID-19

thoughts and prayers?

Frankly, I think this is irrelevant. Donald Trump Jr. is not an elected official of any kind, and is today merely the son of a soon to be ex-President with a lot of upcoming troubles for the business that he runs.

Re: Official Election thread

The General Services Administration has informed President-Elect Biden that his transition may begin by way of accessing Federal transition funding.

Source

Re: Pres-Elect Biden's proposed cabinet and WH top staff picks

Apparently Biden will name Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State. Quick Google Search indicates, in September he think decoupling with China is unrealistuc, counterproductive, and is a mistake, and said Biden would focus on rebuilding U.S. competitiveness to better compete with China, instead of ta...

Re: What is wrong with South American capitalism/ capitalism in general?

This seems not irrelevant to the discussion:

Re: Pres-Elect Biden's proposed cabinet and WH top staff picks

Janet Yellen will be nominated Treasury Secretary. Another logical pick that shouldn't ruffle feathers given she served for multiple years in both the Obama and Trump Administrations.

She was easily confirmed 56-26 in 2014 for Fed Chairman, and will be the first female Treasury Secretary

Re: Pres-Elect Biden's proposed cabinet and WH top staff picks

What we're hearing today doesn't sound at all controversial: Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield, UN Ambassador Both have been previously confirmed (swiftly) on a bi-partisan basis for comparable jobs under past administrations, and should be as well here. Those getting worke...

Re: Trump announces regulation to lower prescription drug prices

The big money won the presidential race. How many billionaires supported Trump, and how many supported Biden... look into it. Biden was the corporate candidate. Small business and large business are frequently antagonists. Many of us regard small business as shady scum, yet we revere large corporat...

Re: Is the political polling business broken?

Two things on this: 1) While there were loads of polls that were notably outside the margins of error, it's interesting to me that the betting odds, measured by those offered by Bovada the day before the election, got every single state correct. All of them. Full stop. I'd always assumed that their ...

Re: Official Election thread

It's been a couple weeks since Biden was declared winner and a house in my neighborhood still has their Trump banners and signs up. Same here but not in my neighborhood. Some of them are businesses. This is actually good because now I know where NOT to shop. It is, at this point, really shocking li...

Re: OAG Changes 11/10/2020:DL+MSPSRQ;F9 Out ICTDEN,Some Carib;LH Pauses 7 Routes;NK+SNAPHX;UA Pauses SMX

So in order to get correct data you need to know who is doing this as well to get accurate data. Please don't throw that if this airline or that airline thought they could make money they'd fly those routes. There are many routes out there that are money makers that are not flown for one reason or ...

Re: OAG Changes 11/10/2020:DL+MSPSRQ;F9 Out ICTDEN,Some Carib;LH Pauses 7 Routes;NK+SNAPHX;UA Pauses SMX

DL is only flying MSP-SRQ because SY if flying it. It is what it is and don't read too much into it. In normal times: DL will (almost) always fly a route that a competitor launches from its core hubs (e.g, MSP-HRL, MSP-KEF) DL will (almost ) always upgauge and fly more capacity when a LCC launches ...

Re: Official Election thread

The only way President Trump won’t be President is if he concedes the election, and that, will never happen. That is, of course, nonsense. Per the constitution, the Electoral College must meet on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years, which is December 14,...

Re: Sen Manchin shows leadership

'potentially' the deciding vote (likely not) on something that 'some' Democrats have expressed an interest in doing (but won't). A nothingburger, but I get the need to generate new threads after your string of abysmal predictions this week. Yea I get it. It wasn't a nothingburger until Manchin ate ...

Re: Sen Manchin shows leadership

Moderate-leaning Democrat rejects Left-leaning Democrat idea - my god what a groundbreaking development worthy of a thread. Shall I make another one when Bernie Sanders and AOC re-endorse Medicare for All? Did you leave out that he is potentially the deciding vote on two of the biggest things they ...