Bluedriver

And this today:

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

putzin

Sounds like somebody is making some good deals so we won't waste time going to trial? It would be nice to get the ball rolling towards combining so people can move on with their lives. 🤞

Halon1211

so this is just an agreement with allegiant not necessarily the DOT/DOJ.

is this good news then?

or is it a sign that Jetblue is having to ante up because they are afraid the merger might fall through and are trying to appease the Biden admin?

Excargodog

Pretty much all mergers involve giving up slots or gates in areas where the merger would create a localized monopoly. The fact that these are conditional on the merger going through suggests to me that there is dickering going on with DOJ and they are coming to terms, conditional on DOJ actually permitting the merger. Trust but verify…

RemoveB4flght

Almost no merger, whether under the purview of the Federal Trade Commission, or in this case because it’s a transportation company the Department of Justice, will be approved without some form of concessions or stipulations. The FTC rubber stamps the overwhelming majority of mergers, and presents the concessions to the taxpayers as a win, and the small antitrust dept at the DOJ usually does the same.

This is JetBlue being proactive, which is smart. Usually these type of concessions would be hashed out with the Government before receiving merger approval, in this case they don’t want to play ball and filed a lawsuit to block it. Now we go to a judge, where the government has the burden of proof that this deal is bad for the people. The judge looks at their arguments, which are weak, looks at precedent, which is all the other mergers being approved, and looks at the list of concessions B6 has already publicly committed to, which falls in line with what would be expected during normal merger ops. Then the judge will seek rebuttal from the diversity hire prosecutor, who will word salad about how the poors won’t be able to fly.

The judge will ask for a little more concessions, then rule in favor of the merger, which will collapse the civil suit (a bunch of travels agents and professional plaintiffs looking for settlement money), and we will all be on our way to wearing silly blue shirts.

SoFloFlyer

This makes it sound like JB pilots will go against our work life provision in our contract when it comes to JCBA

SoFloFlyer

Things are getting spicy 😎

Halon1211

Thanks for the info!

Hugh Betcha

We were founded as a pilots airline, they were born of their founders airline. They may not be required to clean seat backs and eat Blue Chips, but some still do. They need our strength and resolve, but they haven't experienced DTZ etc. and a work life balance as we know it.

None of them have shut the MFR down and walked the pavement in one of the worst of job markets, and the majority of ours haven't. DTZ needs to be the bar everything starts from. We need to lead here in a positive manner as no one likes change and pilot egos are stubborn and fragile.

Excargodog

Blue shirts for me would be a no vote in the JCBA. I did the blue shirt deal for too many years…