I'm probably wrong but Independence Air looks to me like "Plan B" when FlyI and UAL couldn't agree on lower fee-per-departure rates. Of course the FlyI executives will paint the past two years as the culmination of a long-term plan to succeed where Presidential Air failed, but I'm just very cynical. IMO, it all looks like decisions made on the fly - very spur of the moment "save the company" type moves.