CNBC reports US Air / United in merger talks

[ATRCA]

Yikes!!

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36236115

Watch the video

 

[Cheeta]

How do you figure?

Well they will both need to grow to compete... jetBlue and Alaska have the best route structures and are number 7 and 8 respectively.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

????

Your links are from 2008...what's your point?

My Point,... Same B$, Different Day (YEAR)...You know how many times this B$ came up through my years (12) associated with that place...A Gazzilion, it's all about Management making their Millions and who cares if it will ever work out (The current Situation is a prime example!)

OR... Dougie is trying to drive the price of the stock up to settle his Bar Tab...You decide!

Later,
KBB

 

[UALX727]

Actually, AirTran is slightly ahead of Alaska as far as U.S. marketshare goes.

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/

 

[FDJ2]

Third, there's merger talks, big fat hairy deal. Until the unions reach an agreement on the multitude of serious issues there won't be a merger...
unless somebody goes Chapter 11 first.

Kind of like TWA did?

 

[ACL65PILOT]

This is a head fake to force CAL in to the game.

 

[ATRCA]

This is a head fake to force CAL in to the game.

Just because a US/UAL merger sounds so stupid to make it almost unplausible doesn't make it untrue. I think that's why so many are convinced that this is nothing more than a ploy. It sounds absurd but these are the two guys who've been screaming "merger" more often and louder than anyone else for a very long time. I think they're serious!

 

[TWA Dude]

Kind of like TWA did?

Possibly.

 

[Grandpa +65]

Structurally, US Airways will likely be the buyer however United will likely run the new company, adds Sorkin. Terms have not been set.

This will all be very interesting!imp:

 

[BeCareful!]

Structurally, US Airways will likely be the buyer however United will likely run the new company, adds Sorkin. Terms have not been set.

This will all be very interesting!imp:

Right, and the structure is designed to obliterate an ALPA-negotiated provision in LOA 93 for a snap back to 2002 wages (remember 2002??)

So watch ALPA (UAL ALPA) support that obliteration. A circumvention of its own contract language!!! ALPA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well......at least UAL is now very much in favor of DOH, so the absolutely ill-conceived, irrational, inane NIC will be placed in a coffin like it should have been upon its first viewing.

BC

(Who did the 517 work for?!?!?!?.....must have been some other carrier who's pilots had superior career expectations!!!)