Plan A,b,c What Will Airtrans Next Move Be?

[Lear70]

That would be about it...

 

[FlyAirtran]

First of all, AirTran has shown a profit for the last five years and will show one tomorrow for the whole year 2006.

Airtran has shown a profit for the last 7 years not five and we will show one for 2006 as well.

 

[SWA/FO]

DA Tranny will be aquired by WN. The 717's will be sold to Midwest and we get all the 737 + the 737 pilots (SWAPA will go to bat for 'em).

 

[Kharma Police]

DA Tranny will be aquired by WN. The 717's will be sold to Midwest and we get all the 737 + the 737 pilots (SWAPA will go to bat for 'em).

SWAPA will give us a "bat" alright. A bat covered in sandpaper shoved up our arses.........

 

[ultrarunner]

NAAAA...if DA Tranny was such a good deal, SWA would have bought 'em already, and thrown out what they didn't want. Now, the 717's to MEH, that's a thought, but if MEH had a place for 'em, they'd have kept the 25 options they had instead of tossing them in the trash.

hmmmm.....

 

[ultrarunner]

SWAPA will give us a "bat" alright. A bat covered in sandpaper shoved up our arses.........

And you'll LIKE IT!

 

[Kharma Police]

NAAAA...if DA Tranny was such a good deal, SWA would have bought 'em already, and thrown out what they didn't want. Now, the 717's to MEH, that's a thought, but if MEH had a place for 'em, they'd have kept the 25 options they had instead of tossing them in the trash.

hmmmm.....

Where are all of those SkyWest RJs going to park?

 

[Bill Nelson]

DA Tranny will be aquired by WN. The 717's will be sold to Midwest and we get all the 737 + the 737 pilots (SWAPA will go to bat for 'em).

I happen to believe there is alot of truth to that statement. SWA may even carry the note for Midwest with the knowledge that we can always take them back and resale them if we want. I think SWA will insist that the pilots go with the respective A/C. The 737 guys will go to SWA and the others will go to midwest.

The guys going to SWA will be stapled, but pay protected. Probably see something as soon as the UAIR/Delta offer is decided in early Feb. SWA would rather buy the shuttle from Delta than buy Airtran, but the bottom line is SWA is buying something in the next few weeks.

 

[Lear70]

That's just rude.

I can't imagine a worse insult than being told just because I was on one piece of equipment I wasn't worthy to come to work for that airline (or being forced to go to work at one that isn't growing, that I never had any urge to work for, and where upgrade is just shy of a decade on quite possibly THE worst F/O payscale in the industry).

I wonder if there's anything in our fragmentation language at AAI to prevent that sort of piecemeal sale...?

 

[Kharma Police]

That's just rude.

I can't imagine a worse insult than being told just because I was on one piece of equipment I wasn't worthy to come to work for that airline (or being forced to go to work at one that isn't growing, that I never had any urge to work for, and where upgrade is just shy of a decade on quite possibly THE worst F/O payscale in the industry).

I wonder if there's anything in our fragmentation language at AAI to prevent that sort of piecemeal sale...?

Ask a Delta pilot how it was done to PAN-AM.