Merger Mania...is it over?

[OurMoney1]

Anybody wanna predict the next merger?

Or is it over?

Thoughts?

 

[n757st]

Ask some wallstreet guys, not some pilots, we don't know squat.

 

[Fubijaakr]

Alaska-Hawaiian.
DAL-Alaska.
SWA-Alaska.
AA-USAir (Double trouble).
B6-USAir or AA-B6 (BOTH bad for B6 pilots).

 

[Flyby1206]

VX, Frontier, Spirit, and USAir are the weakest companies in my opinion. So I am willing to bet one or more of those carriers will be involved in the next merger.

 

[johnsonrod]

My guesses:

JB + F9 (accelerate the move out of the EMB)

DAL + Alaska

 

[Metro752]

US Airways & Hawaiian.

Alaska, Hawaiian, & US Airways.

 

[bsip03]

Aa/b6

 

[Flying the Line]

Skywest / American Eagle

 

[Gators]

SWA + Cape Air

 

[pilotpm]

SWA + Cape Air

Yes and staple SW to the bottom of the list!

I keed, I keed!:laugh:

 

[Dan Roman]

I don't think USAir merging with anyone is very realistic. Reason? They bring, courtesy of USAPA, huge legal liabilities that won't be settled anytime soon. In addition that can't be merged into any other ALPA carrier without even more legal problems that would never end.
No healthy airline could get a USAir merger to be accepted by their Board of Directors, it would not be in any stockholders best interest to jump into that mess.

 

[jynxyjericho]

Pinnacle/Mesaba and Air Wisconsin.

Pinnacolaba- Whiskey.

 

[bri5150]

Pinnacle/Mesaba and Air Wisconsin.

Pinnacolaba- Whiskey.

Yeah, that's what we need. More 200's.

 

[vballindaytona]

Jetblue, Frontier, Spirit. Combine all the A320's.

 

[RiddleEagle18]

Why people think B6/Frontier is a good merger is beyond me. Why would B6 want to merge with a company who main operation is in a 3 way with united and swa? For its MKE hub that is also getting crushed by SWA? For the planes? That doesnt make sense.

 

[StaySeated]

Why people think B6/Frontier is a good merger is beyond me. Why would B6 want to merge with a company who main operation is in a 3 way with united and swa? For its MKE hub that is also getting crushed by SWA? For the planes? That doesnt make sense.

First North American delivery of a NEO for the price of a Bombardier might be attractive to JetBlue or Spirit or Virgin.

Spirit or Virgin make smore sense than JB, although the investment in Frontier will probably come from P.E. rather than another airline.

One an always hope..... but I am mentally preparing to get raped by TPG or Perseaus in an asset sale as soon as the shareholders recoup their losses.

 

[NEDude]

Virgin is not going to merge with anyone until after an IPO, which is probably 3 years away.

 

[Fins Up]

How 'about AW/US giving up and going their separate ways? An 'unmerger' if you will.

 

[Flyby1206]

How 'about AW/US giving up and going their separate ways? An 'unmerger' if you will.

There ya go, thats more likely than anything else!

Then maybe a AW/Frontier merger followed by USAir East/Spirit.

 

[NEDude]

How 'about AW/US giving up and going their separate ways? An 'unmerger' if you will.

Only if investment bankers or executives stand to gain a lot of money from an 'unmerger'.