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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 3:29 pm
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Originally Posted by ctuttle
Sending out a press release saying they "might consider" a codeshare arrangment with an airline that you admit you have not talked to? What's the point, or is it an act of desperation in hopes that suddenly Southwest will see the press release and then pick up the phone and get this dream of Air Tran into reality.

Something ain't right here, and not sure what it is. Could just be a new person in PR trying to come up with a press release to get the company name out there, or trying to deflect the negative $107.1 million 4th quarter loss.

Sounds more like a things are not good at Air Tran, so they would send out a strange press release.
You're all forgetting that AirTran currently partners with Frontier:

http://www.frontierairlines.com/fron...es/airlines.do

Which brings up numerous possibilites, including that they want to signal to Frontier that they're willing to change partners if Frontier doesn't give them a good deal.
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