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Re:Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B by RockyMcNuts on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:26PM (#11424644)
well, you wouldn't want foreign airlines giving their governments information about military and VIP movements, letting their intelligence services intercept and tamper with shipped packages, maybe fit planes on interesting routes with surveillance equipment.

i.e. the stuff the US does.

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Re:Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B by sangnoir on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:49PM (#11425998)
> you wouldn't want foreign airlines giving their governments information about military and VIP movements

Just how magical is the the extra 2% that takes one from an "OK/freiendly" 49% foreign shareholder to a 51% (or 50% +1?) "oh no, intel stealer!". I sort-of understand the control argument, but not the secrecy argument you are making doesn't hold up.

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Re:Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B by RockyMcNuts on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:44PM (#11427628)
it was tongue in cheek, but yeah, that 2% (or .01%) to go from junior partner to running the show is pretty magical. (ask a game theorist, or Al Gore!)
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