Southwest to buy Skywest?

[spg2bmd]

Heard today from a Southwest pilot that this is the new rumor over there... anyone else?

 

[viper548]

It's gonna be a DOH merge, right?

 

[IronCityBlue]

Do any "mainline" airlines have holding company scope restrictions for larger Non Permitted Types? Or if this happens (and for the record I'm predicting it won't by a long shot) would SW/SKYW be able to pull the classic "seperate certificate trick" and suck revenue from legacy airlines to funnel to the SWA mainline?

 

[MarineGrunt]

Heard today from a Southwest pilot that this is the new rumor over there... anyone else?

Put down the bottle and slowly back away....
:nuts::beer::nuts:

 

[joe_pilot]

3 pages by noon

 

[dispatchguy]

And two of them will be the various reasons how ALPA would be able to protect the SKW pilots.

 

[RedDogC130]

What are you smoking? You can't operate the RJ and make money, why would we do it....get real.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Heard today from a Southwest pilot that this is the new rumor over there... anyone else?

YGBFKM. How can anybody even be taking this seriously?

 

[WalterSobchak]

I've heard some pretty epic rumours on Southwest jumpseats. Methinks he was just yankin' yer chain.

 

[XPOO]

Southwest has to do something before SkyWest slowly takes over the world. jk. This is the funniest rumor on FI.com in quite awhile.

 

[Max Q]

That rumor has been floating around SKW for months.

-Brett

 

[Exskydiverdrivr]

That rumor has been floating around SKW for months.

-Brett

Not this rumor. This one's ridiculous.

 

[XPOO]

Last stupid SW/SKYW rumor I heard was that a partnership was axed over Uncle Jerry not wanting to use the aircraft Southwest wanted SkyWest to fly. And even that one was ridiculous.

 

[Max Q]

Not this rumor. This one's ridiculous.

Yes. This exact one.

-Brett

 

[lookin4better]

What are you smoking? You can't operate the RJ and make money, why would we do it....get real.

smartest thing I have heard on this topic....RJs are dead or dying....SWA sure wont get involved in that mess

 

[Headfake14]

Soutwest WILL gobble someone up within the next 6 months...I believe that. But Skywest...no, actually, HELL no. It'll be someone with 73s on property...I say either Airtran, Westjet or something else I can't think of.

 

[Richard Gozinya]

3 pages by noon

I'm here to help!

Dick Gozinya

 

[Leroy Smith]

Originally Posted by joe_pilot
3 pages by noon

Doing my part to further propagate the jibbeh-jabbeh.....

 

[Ben Dover]

What are you smoking? You can't operate the RJ and make money, why would we do it....get real.

I love it when say this! But hey don't bother to look at the Skywest balance sheet before you make such a statement.

 

[Ben Dover]

....Or we could all just parrot what Mike Boyd has been saying for the last seven years. Hey if you say something long enough, eventually you will be right.