It may be in AOAs interest to at least offer the Y. Offer KA the bottom, and you have an instant disgruntled group the management can use against you. "hey KA boys, want to fly the 380 for 10% less than the CX boys will do it for?" "Sure, they screwed us over on integration, why not... " Plenty of examples of this in aviation to discount it as a possibility. As stated earlier, look forward with the benefit of hindsight. The "what part of takeover dont you understand" vitriol is stale and pathetically short sighted.