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Don't be surprised if SW isn't looking at NK. Fleet's different, wouldn't be hard to move 30 Airbus's. Convert those to 73's. Want to go international look at NK's route structure. NK's CASM is lower than SW and AAI. Customer service would have to change thou. That would be easy since they are all outsourced except for a very few. Whatever happens when SW pulls the plug we will all be saying, wow didn't see that one coming. JMHO.
 
Don't be surprised if SW isn't looking at NK. Fleet's different, wouldn't be hard to move 30 Airbus's. Convert those to 73's. Want to go international look at NK's route structure. NK's CASM is lower than SW and AAI. Customer service would have to change thou. That would be easy since they are all outsourced except for a very few. Whatever happens when SW pulls the plug we will all be saying, wow didn't see that one coming. JMHO.

Thats the problem their CASM is lower. So what happens when you digest them and pay your pay rates? The CASM goes way up and the RASM stays right where it is..........not good
 
Spirit makes way more sense than AT as far as SWA codeshare or purchase targets. Just think of all that Caribbean + Central/South America stuff they do out of FLL. If Gary K. gets his way it'd be strictly a code share, so the fleet type isn't a factor. The $6Billion question for most of us SWA guys isn't who our next code share is, it's how we stop the codeshare explosion.
 

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