Originally Posted by Flyby1206

Baldanza leaving the JB board and Menke replacing him. Was he good/bad during the time at F9?

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Originally Posted by Flyby1206

Baldanza leaving the JB board and Menke replacing him. Was he good/bad during the time at F9?

https://news.jetblue.com/latest-news...s/default.aspx

Originally Posted by Flyby1206

Baldanza leaving the JB board and Menke replacing him. Was he good/bad during the time at F9?

https://news.jetblue.com/latest-news...s/default.aspx

Originally Posted by Aero1900

I think Menke was a good guy

Originally Posted by DumboDrop

I have tremendous respect for Sean Menke. He got F9 through a rough time.

Originally Posted by hercretired

Baldanza is very sick with ALS

Prayers for his health and any chance of improvement

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Originally Posted by Cameronhoward

Leverage will come from the RLA process. The company can only **** off the mediator and NMB for so long with there stall tactics and bad faith negotiating. Eventually we will get released for self help.

Originally Posted by Blueskies67

We won’t vote in current day legacy rates in two years from now coming from someone inside the inner circle. The current MEC is weakened from all of our officers leaving for legacies plus our pilot group isn’t unified enough for a no vote. Our pilot group would vote yes to a 70-80% legacy contract tomorrow. I’m just being honest and hope this post changes peoples opinions, but where we sit now our NC and national don’t know how to negotiate with the company because no one including the mediators are used to dealing with such an anti labor management.

Originally Posted by Mooneyguy

Barry gambled and won. That’s all there is to it. It would have been a fast contract. We can thank Boeing and a shift in the legacies to try and drive us out. Among a few other things. Had hiring by the big 4 continued as it should have we would have had a TA by now. Current conditions have bought Barry and franke a little time. Of course the failed JB-NK merger is playing into it. Why give us a contract now, if they will have to go through it again with a JCBA once it’s announced we’re making a play on NK again.

Originally Posted by ReserveCA

I would wager at least 3 more years

Originally Posted by LifetimeCFI

HA-AS merger has been approved and will go through.

Originally Posted by hercretired

The ruling basically is the court saying we (the government) should not faciliate anything that hampers competition. Now, if the "free market" (Spirit fails and shuts down, due to no merger), and thus consumers are left with fewer choices to travel, so be it. The blood is not on the government's hands.

Regarding the "Frontier will buy Spirit theory" - that was proposed in July 2022, when Frontier stock price was $12. Frontier was going to use Frontier shares to buy Spirit. Imagine $12 each tokens to play games at Chuck E. Cheese. Now those tokens are worth $5 each. Can Barry pull it off, even if he wants to ?

"Spirit is on sale now" (Stock price down 60%). While true, the better decision will be Barry lets them bleed out, then magically appear with a Barry Biffle first aid kit. What is Spirit going to say? No?

So expect a lot of "we are not interested anymore" / "2024 we are looking at other focus areas" when Barry is asked. Make no mistake, I am sure Barry is considering buying/merging/etc with Spirit.

My opinion is Spirit, now with no dance partner, is at risk of bankruptcy and insolvency and possibly closing its doors altogether, sans another rescue attempt (which we know the DOJ is against anyway).

Alaska/Hawaiian - they will closely monitor the developments in this case and carefully craft their case, which will be successful. JetBlue and Spirit was the classroom for the Alaska/HA merger.

So the question for Frontier, which nobody knows the answer to, is: what is next?

Stay tuned