Critics who watched the process closely said Southwest's bid wasn't ready for prime time. Southwest executives "seemed not to understand the dynamics of the process or the obvious bottlenecks and complexities involved," said industry consultant Mo Garfinkle of Arlington, Va. Southwest "was naive and it didn't know it. It underestimated Republic and its talented management team, and it overestimated the reception to a Southwest bid, especially by the Frontier stakeholders."
Southwest withdrew its bid Thursday evening when the pilots' unions of the two airlines could not reach agreements before the auction process, as was required by Southwest's offer. The offer would have given pilots more pay, but kept them at the bottom of the seniority list
that's not nice..................
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I LOVE SEOLF-SERVICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GREAT GREAT.
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Number one, those planes were safe and the FAA understands that. What a shame though. Great airlines has to pay money that they don't have just to validate the faa's power.... Only in America.
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