With so much route overlap between F9 and WN I am curious to know exactly what WN gets from the deal.
Frontier was strong in the West were Southwest is already very strong. Usually when an airline takes over another they are looking for route compliments. And airline that has a strong presence where you are weak. Because F9 has so much route overlap wouldn't it have been to WN's advantage to simply allow the weaker airline to file for Chapter 7 and disappear? That would mean fewer seats chasing after a depressed pool of customers. Keeping F9's planes and routes that WN already flies, will simply keep downward pressure on the price WN can charge. Too many seats chasing too few butts to fill them.
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