Originally Posted by
bocastephen
AA/DL/UA might be gone, but others, such as AS, WN and B6 might still come out of this unscathed and can fill the gap.
So if the Big 3 were to vanish, Southwest would start flying to Tokyo, Johannesburg, Munich?
I don't think so.
Everyone's got their niche, business model, capacity. Alaska and JetBlue *combined* don't carry *half* as many passengers as American or Delta on their own. Nobody's going to double or triple their operational scale to jump into some void that their business just isn't intended to fit.