SocraticGadfly: Southwest-Frontier deal is dead

August 14, 2009

Southwest-Frontier deal is dead

Frontier pilots refused to swap a 40 percent wage hike in exchange for surrendering all their seniority, so Southwest’s bankruptcy offer for Frontier is dead. Republic, which previously got Midwest out of bankruptcy, is the winner.

Per the story of what it did to Midwest’s pilots, the Frontier pilots may not have made the right decision, but that’s a toughie in the dog-eat-dog world of pilot seniority, if you have any knowledge of that.

And, despite some analysts’ pooh-pooh-ing, Republic is a definite winner.

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