"Frank F. Matthews" wrote:

They have made a reasonable recovery from their disastrous management
performance ten years ago. When you change your name and hide
eventually most folks forget what a disaster your company was.

What disasterous management performance? As near as I can tell, they were
under a microscope at the time, since they were the first airline to
extensively contract out maintenance. Something done in many other
industries, I might add. There was an accident, which arguably wasn't the
fault of the airline management, and were then considered as "unsafe".

When they merged with AirTran, they used AirTran's operating license, and
contracted their maintenance to that company. Otherwise, they are still
building on the same model they used as ValuJet.