Originally Posted by FWAAA
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.
I'm fairly certain that "stick it to United" was part of the plan. One of the things that is for certain though, is that sticking with UA under UA's terms would have been met with the same death wish they're currently facing. If you're going to get shot anyway, shouldn't you at least die running?