Another bid to buy Midwest Airlines?

[Newpilot2b]

I have been hearing that there is another bid to buy out Midwest Airlines??? Anyone else hearing whispers?

 

[xanderman]

shhhh!!!

[Whisper] No... Shhhh.

 

[EX_CV580FR8Dawg]

I have been hearing that there is another bid to buy out Midwest Airlines??? Anyone else hearing whispers?

another AAI bid or is there another suitor?

 

[GuppyPuppy]

I heard it was US Airways. They are not confident in the Delta deal and are looking for a decent midwest hub.



GP

 

[SkiFishFly]

It might be Delta. They always seem to try to follow whatever AirTran does... usually with RJs.

 

[jetflier]

It might be Delta. They always seem to try to follow whatever AirTran does... usually with RJs.

I don't know, ........could be Northwest, looking to resurrect the old Republic/North Central MKE hub again....

 

[NuGuy]

Heyas,

Actually, word is that it's NWA. They don't like the fact that AAI can't really come up with an original idea of their own, such as MKE and IND.

In both cases, NWA was first in when someone was stumbling (Midwest and ATA), and the copycats at AirTran said "hey, lets do that, too!".

So it's payback time...they will either snatch Midwest out from under them, like they did with CAL from DAL in 1998, or they'll start a bidding war so AAI winds up paying substantially more than they would have, either of which accomplishes NWA goals.

Nu

 

[Fly4hire]

Heyas,

Actually, word is that it's NWA. They don't like the fact that AAI can't really come up with an original idea of their own, such as MKE and IND.

Nu

You just making that up, or have you heard it from somewhere credible? It would not suprise me, and with the NWA background in DC9 series acft would be a no brainer from a training/integration stand point.

Personally I think it would be more NWA like to just to crush AAI on a bidding war......

 

[Ty Webb]

NWA doesn't have 2 nickels to rub together.

Next . . . . .


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[737 Pylt]

It might be Delta. They always seem to try to follow whatever AirTran does... usually with RJs.

I don't care who you are, that's funny!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
And I agree!

737

 

[Fly4hire]

NWA doesn't have 2 nickels to rub together.

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NWA is viewed as golden by the finacial community for how well they have reduced labor and other operating costs comapred to DAL/UAL/U, and has investors standing in line to give them money for exit financing.

If said investors think they'll get a better return on thier investment dollar by funding a merger you could esily see NWA be the aquirer in a merger scenario. Also doing it before exiting CH11 makes it much easier to renegotiate or cancel leases on acft they don't want or need in such a transaction

 

[dbrownie]

Heyas,

Actually, word is that it's NWA. They don't like the fact that AAI can't really come up with an original idea of their own, such as MKE and IND.

In both cases, NWA was first in when someone was stumbling (Midwest and ATA), and the copycats at AirTran said "hey, lets do that, too!".

So it's payback time...they will either snatch Midwest out from under them, like they did with CAL from DAL in 1998, or they'll start a bidding war so AAI winds up paying substantially more than they would have, either of which accomplishes NWA goals.

Nu

Nu;

Or they could buy/swipe a big chunk of Midwest as a poison pill like
they did to Continental.

Nwa does not like competition in the midwest cities.

Dave B

 

[nwaredtail]

Brownie, any word from fBrown yet?

 

[dbrownie]

Brownie, any word from fBrown yet?

???
You lost me?

Doesn't take much to confuse me any more!

Dave B

 

[newnan]

NWA would be interesting considering FL's upper mgmt's ties to NW and Mesaba? Bad blood or more in the works?
Talk amongst yourselves