VA Weighs Sale After Receiving Interest
03-24-2016, 08:14 AM
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The redundancy in routes for JB and VA shouldn't be a bad thing. With redundancy, you can add more frequency which is what business travellers truly want. The legacies offer this sometimes 12 flights a day to some of their markets while the most VX or JB have is 6 in some instances. When a market becomes too saturated, like JFK or BOS from the west coast, you launch new cities from the west coast, like CLT, RDU, PHX, so on and so forth. With the merger, JB benefits with the great presence that Virgin does have on the west coast with their assets via gate space and slots while adding an ETOPS program for the A320.
Ideally, I feel like if Hainan did buy a minority share in VX, that would benefit Virgin more because they'd want to invest in more airplanes ASAP to expand its network in the US.
Ideally, I feel like if Hainan did buy a minority share in VX, that would benefit Virgin more because they'd want to invest in more airplanes ASAP to expand its network in the US.
03-24-2016, 12:40 PM
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Interesting little tid bit. All or nothing. This would lean more to the full purchase of Virgin by another airline, in my option.
Interesting little tid bit. All or nothing. This would lean more to the full purchase of Virgin by another airline, in my option.
03-24-2016, 01:04 PM
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IMHO, I think Spirit, not a fortune teller or a biz man, but I do remember few years back a couple of ex Ex of VA went from VA to NKS,...again, I might be wrong, but it will be the perfect match, those exec's might have given some knowledge and ideas toNKS...Spirit is looking, has been looking, at the West Coast market for a while now...
03-24-2016, 06:38 PM
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VX is NOT Virgin Atlantic. At all.
Dude...dude. Two different companies who's only tie is Branson owns parts and they pay royalties for branding. That is IT.
Delta has 0% stake in VX - Virgin **America**
Virgin ATLANTIC is it's own thing, and is UK based.
In your defense everyone thinks they are waaayy more related than they are lol.
Delta has 0% stake in VX - Virgin **America**
Virgin ATLANTIC is it's own thing, and is UK based.
In your defense everyone thinks they are waaayy more related than they are lol.
03-24-2016, 07:16 PM
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Dude...dude. Two different companies who's only tie is Branson owns parts and they pay royalties for branding. That is IT.
Delta has 0% stake in VX - Virgin **America**
Virgin ATLANTIC is it's own thing, and is UK based.
In your defense everyone thinks they are waaayy more related than they are lol.
Delta has 0% stake in VX - Virgin **America**
Virgin ATLANTIC is it's own thing, and is UK based.
In your defense everyone thinks they are waaayy more related than they are lol.
03-24-2016, 07:21 PM
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Dude...dude. Two different companies who's only tie is Branson owns parts and they pay royalties for branding. That is IT.
Delta has 0% stake in VX - Virgin **America**
Virgin ATLANTIC is it's own thing, and is UK based.
In your defense everyone thinks they are waaayy more related than they are lol.
Delta has 0% stake in VX - Virgin **America**
Virgin ATLANTIC is it's own thing, and is UK based.
In your defense everyone thinks they are waaayy more related than they are lol.
To say they're different is just lawyerspeak. It all leads back to the Virgin Group.
Virgin Galactic is just another Virgin Group subsidiary.
03-24-2016, 09:16 PM
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03-25-2016, 07:02 AM
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IMHO, I think Spirit, not a fortune teller or a biz man, but I do remember few years back a couple of ex Ex of VA went from VA to NKS,...again, I might be wrong, but it will be the perfect match, those exec's might have given some knowledge and ideas toNKS...Spirit is looking, has been looking, at the West Coast market for a while now...
The only issue is you all will just have to get used to working for 45% less than other majors.
03-25-2016, 07:13 AM
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JB's model is closer to VA's model than Spirit's. The JB-VA merger makes a lot more sense since the route structures are complementary and VA does not have a large presence out of JFK beyond the transcon flights to Cali.
I highly doubt any Legacy would get a crack at VA given the current regulatory environment. JB+VA makes sense on many levels.
I highly doubt any Legacy would get a crack at VA given the current regulatory environment. JB+VA makes sense on many levels.
03-25-2016, 07:41 AM
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JB's model is closer to VA's model than Spirit's. The JB-VA merger makes a lot more sense since the route structures are complementary and VA does not have a large presence out of JFK beyond the transcon flights to Cali.
I highly doubt any Legacy would get a crack at VA given the current regulatory environment. JB+VA makes sense on many levels.
I highly doubt any Legacy would get a crack at VA given the current regulatory environment. JB+VA makes sense on many levels.
Personally my money is on HAL, maybe an attempt by a legacy or another investor. I highly doubt Spirit or Frontier.
I'm also wondering if the headlines were more for a stock pump than anything? They've been pretty flat since IPO.
It's all fun and games.. .
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