Frontier guys: it's slipping away from you

[PropPiedmont]

Southwest Airlines will petition the bankruptcy court for an extension on the Company’s final bid for Frontier tomorrow morning.

I guess for now the deadline is tomorrow.

 

[shearedshaft]

Ha ha ha your such a troll. I hope for F9's sake the deal is off the table, Republic wins the bid and F9 continues to operate as normal and hands Southwest its A$$ in DEN like it has been doing!

If Republic wins, F9 just continues along, no changes? Didn't you watch the uproar over at Midwest when the pilots were promised the same thing? Grievance after grievance, but no matter, RJs took over, the Douglas airplanes got sold and the Midwest pilots are scratching their heads, wondering what happened.

Republic doesn't have much money, they operate what has to be the most precarious airline business model out there: 50 seat RJs with fee-for-departure contract with companies that are about to sink back into bankruptcy, like UAL. It's not like American is up against SWA, it's a small regional carrier whose days are numbered.

 

[Bake]

Please, let this be over. Kill this deal and let them go to Republic and let them keep kicking our ass in Denver. We will see how long that lasts.

 

[firstthird]

I never jumped into the Allegheny/Mohawk argument, because it was explained to me that it was put in to protect SWAPA during an acquisition. After reading what you just wrote, I fear you might be correct, I just went back to the TA Q&A and it was ambiguous.

shearedshaft,

I'll take that as a thank you to us no voters.

you're welcome. imp:

and you are right it is ambiguous, which is great for lawyers who want to make fees, not so much for us line pukes. M/B scares me because it hasn't been litigated, I doubt our Transtar/Muse precedent would have counted for much and I doubt our ability to run F9 separately and draw them down, so I hope that crack deal of plan doesn't show up tomorrow.

I do wonder if we just lost our TA2 leverage though, but that is better than some sort of feather or ratio, imo.

firstthird

 

[kwick]

Just follow the law, have a fair seniority list integration and get the deal done!

Or, be stagnant, have no growth and be looking at 20 year upgrades.

Your call.

 

[Popeye0537]

I guess your definition of normal includes bankruptcy and auctions. good luck. I hope that RAH treats you better than Midwest but frankly that is between you guys. hopefully SWA can get back to organic growth that got us where we are today and will take us where we are going tomorrow.

p.s. good news for the guys in the pool. talk about the a crap situation. ain't over yet but it is looking brighter than it did for the last week.

Normal as in before the credit card hold back that put them in bankruptcy. F9 was making a small profit before BK and made one in BK, how has denver been working out for WN? From what I read you have 6 routes that continue to lose money flying out of DEN, that is why you want the competition out.

 

[Bake]

Sorry kwick, it ain't either/or.

 

[firstthird]

Just follow the law, have a fair seniority list integration and get the deal done!

Or, be stagnant, have no growth and be looking at 20 year upgrades.

Your call.

the unintended consequence of M/B is likely to be that good managements will avoid mergers that trigger M/B like the plague while bad airline managers won't care, much like before the law was passed.

it isn't the law to integrate if you don't buy or merge. since FAPA/SWAPA couldn't agree and our CEO is standing by his word, no deal (at least for now). that is as it should be.

and I'll take my chances with organic SWA growth over arbitrators decisions any day of the week.

 

[shearedshaft]

shearedshaft,

I'll take that as a thank you to us no voters.

Actually, you won't be surprised, but I don't think that Allegheny/Mohawk provisions make a hill of beans of difference, because if we combine craft and class, then we get it under Bond/McCaskill whether it's in our contract or not. It's federal law.

Now if you're saying that had the TA passed, the company could have forced us to use Allegheny/Mohawk to welcome the Frontier guys, I can reply that the company can do that to us at any time, simply by combining the two workgroups, they didn't need the contract.

I don't think it needed to be in there, but I don't think it would have caused any harm. It's federal law. Interestingly, that law could change and this little donnybrook might be the impetus to change it.

McCaskill is a chump anyway.

 

[firstthird]

I don't think it needed to be in there, but I don't think it would have caused any harm. It's federal law. Interestingly, that law could change and this little donnybrook might be the impetus to change it.

McCaskill is a chump anyway.

I agree about Sen. McCaskill, although she did tweet that some of the healthcare anger might be from real people and not just astroturf, so either she is more in touch than some of her party mates or she is feeling the heat.

I'm less sanguine about the chances of M/B changing anytime soon, getting a law off the books once it is on it much tougher than getting it on unless the deleterious effects are obvious even to gov't types, and even when they are, sometimes they just don't care.

 

[F9 Buff]

Ha ha ha your such a troll. I hope for F9's sake the deal is off the table, Republic wins the bid and F9 continues to operate as normal and hands Southwest its A$$ in DEN like it has been doing!

Anyone who has been in aviation for any length of time knows that today's top dog airline can easily be bankrupt tomorrow. Some goes for the carrier that was on the brink yesterday, tomorrow they might be the place to be.

Whatever keeps Frontier alive in Denver, and keeps anything texas related out, is good for Denver.

Give 'em hell Frontier!

 

[bluestreaking]

Anyone who has been in aviation for any length of time knows that today's top dog airline can easily be bankrupt tomorrow. Some goes for the carrier that was on the brink yesterday, tomorrow they might be the place to be.

Whatever keeps Frontier alive in Denver, and keeps anything texas related out, is good for Denver.

Give 'em hell Frontier!

Uhhh......Pass the crack pipe dude!

 

[GoodTimes]

"Same goes for the carrier that was on the brink yesterday, tomorrow they might be the place to be."


Who in this business has gone from "on the brink" to "the place to be"? I'd venture to say that only one company has pulled that off.....Southwest.

Give 'em hell Southwest!

 

[GuppyWN]

Are the F9 dudes on this forum happy to see the deal blowing up?

Do you feel your career will be more rewarding at RAH?

Thanks and good luck either way,
Gup

 

[The Victors]

Anyone who has been in aviation for any length of time knows that today's top dog airline can easily be bankrupt tomorrow. Some goes for the carrier that was on the brink yesterday, tomorrow they might be the place to be.

Whatever keeps Frontier alive in Denver, and keeps anything texas related out, is good for Denver.

Give 'em hell Frontier!

Are you really that stupid? Bankrupt? Like F9? Do you really think you stand a better chance with RAH?