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Old Sep 28, 2016, 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
The shareholders did, in fact, vote to take the offer.

https://www.virginamerica.com/cms/ab...-air-group-inc

I have to wonder if all the VX partisans would be so full of OUTRAGE!11!!1!!1!1 were it B6 acquiring VX instead of AS...
Not as much as AS doesn't really provide much to those based at SFO. B6 would at least bring Mint service to transcons. Pay scales are probably more similar and B6 is redoing their cabins starting in a few more months to look very similar to what VX has now. Free fast internet on all flights would also be a bonus. It would have been a lot easier with the fleet commonality as well.

A little hard to get excited when the only destination added is a single, oddly timed flight to SLC and we are looking at a product that will not even be as good as VX.
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