Alaska nearing deal to acquire Virgin America
04-04-2016, 08:11 AM
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Nope. For years AS operated MD-80s, an aircraft brought on the property via the JA merger. In fact, AS was slated to be the first MD-90 operator. That eventually fell through.
To be perfectly frank, the Boelng centricity of AS is now in question. An additional benefit of this merger puts pressure on Boeing to cut the price of the AS book using the threat of switching to the Airbus. Very clever, these Anglers.
To be perfectly frank, the Boelng centricity of AS is now in question. An additional benefit of this merger puts pressure on Boeing to cut the price of the AS book using the threat of switching to the Airbus. Very clever, these Anglers.
04-04-2016, 10:54 AM
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04-04-2016, 11:01 AM
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I wouldn't be so sure, UAL has said they are looking for any used A320/319 on the market now. Hence the 30-40 they're getting from China and Spirit....who knows
04-05-2016, 04:58 AM
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As far as integrating two pilot groups are concerned, Hockeypilot44 is right. Regardless of how the business transaction is structured, or referred to by Wall Street and the media, the SLI will be a "merger" of the two lists. It's semantics. McCaskill/Bond, or ALPA merger policy, they both lay the groundwork for merging the lists. What the money managers and lawyers do with the business has no bearing.
04-05-2016, 03:12 PM
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I will be very surprised if in two years Alaska will be more then 60 percent of the combined entity.
And I do not mean that to cast aspersions on ANY Alaska or VX employees.
And I do not mean that to cast aspersions on ANY Alaska or VX employees.
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04-05-2016, 03:26 PM
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Make no mistake.....Alaska Air Group fought hard to prevent Virgin from ever starting....spent millions on that.....This time they paid a premium for the right to kill them.....I would imagine that Alaska Airlines inc will be directed to not back fill retirements for a couple years to bring the combined total down to a number that Alaska Air Group is comfortable with....One can hope not but history shows otherwise
04-05-2016, 04:05 PM
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04-05-2016, 05:17 PM
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Delta paid $2.6B for Northwest that had 320 airplanes (all stock transcation)
Alaska pays $4B for Virgin America that owns 6 planes and leases about 60? Plus is has to give up $2.6B of its cash, which neither Delta nor United had to do since they did a stock only purchase.
What am I missing? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy planes and grow organically into California? An all Boeing airline buys an all Airbus airline?
This whole thing looks nuts.
I wish you all luck.
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