Originally Posted by
char777
I still struggle to see what JBLU as a company gets out of this that is positive. If I were running that airline, I wouldn't care about 'retimings' at EWR (whatever that means), I wouldn't want to give UA some JFK slots, and I wouldn't want my passengers sampling UA. The big prize for UA is obvious, as getting back into JFK is great, but not until 2027?
they get activists off their back, and they get some nebulous cache from a close alliance with an airline in UA that is increasingly challenging DL for the top spot on the food chain. B6 loyalists, on the other hand, get very little tangible benefit now, and the horrible prospect of being acquired by UA in the future, decreasing competition out of NYC even further.
the only hope is that the process gets dragged along slowly enough, and that a more anti-monopoly DOJ/DOT/etc takes over in 2029.