Guys, either Scott Kirby is losing his mind, or the Trump administration likes “big deals” even more than we already knew.
The common belief has been that some sort of deal with JetBlue is most likely, both since JetBlue is looking for a merger partner, and also since Kirby has been very vocal about his interest in JetBlue. Delta’s CEO has made it clear he thinks we’ll see multiple mergers, and even the Transportation Secretary has said he’s generally in favor of consolidation. So to see the suggestion that two of the country’s three biggest airlines could merge is on a completely different level.
Let me of course emphasize that this is just a report, and that it’s anyone’s guess if any attempt is even made here. The report only suggests that Kirby has floated the idea with some senior Trump officials, and one wonders how serious this proposal even is (“wouldn’t it be funny if we bought American, haha?”).
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