Yeah, their smartest play is to just let Mesa be as an autonomous company under the Gibson umbrella. Having spent 15 years in corporate America though, even if this happens (which is rare, usually M&A look for “synergies” and fire a bunch of people whose function they don’t fully understand), it doesn’t last for long. Eventually the old boys network from the parent company moves in and massacres the previous management to replace it with themselves and their cronies. Good people leave shortly thereafter. I’ve yet to see any exceptions to this. So Mesa as we know it today will be allowed to continue for a couple of years, and then it will rapidly crap out due to the factors outlined above.
