DAL up sharply - Merger Talks with ALPA

[SEVEN]

Where do you get NWA will be the initiator? The articles I have read lately say otherwise. Please show something that states anything close to what you think will happen.

Bye Bye--General Lee

I have a crystal ball.

 

[General Lee]

Huh??

I have a crystal ball.

The highlighted portion below means nothing to you, right? Read it---CHOOSE. What does that mean? They are the initiator.


Reuters
Delta aims to start UAL, Northwest merger talks - WSJ
Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:14pm EST


NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N:
Quote, Profile, Research) plans on Friday to ask its board
permission to begin formal merger talks with both Northwest
Airlines Corp (NWA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and United
Airlines parent UAL Corp (UAUA.O: Quote, Profile, Research),
the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Wall
Street Journal said that Delta would aim to ultimately
choose between the two carriers.



You need to be on the Psychic Friends network...


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[jke406]

The writing is on the wall for a NWA/Delta merger with NWA being the initiator.

you can wish in one hand and sh!t in the other. Let me know which one fills up first.

and good luck with that day-trading thing...you're obviously not good at it, since if you were, you'd be on your yacht and not a pilot/FI poster.

 

[Diesel-9]

NWA Inc. will survive in some form. Their Pacific Route authority with the 1952? treaty states the routes are to be flown by them. And can't be sold or transfered. NWA also had a poison pill structured into the operation and DAL didn't. Not that it matters in this scenario. Bet they (NWA) makes a deal with Tilton to pull the trigger first with CAL and collect the golden share and then do the DAL merger. The NWA/DAL deal came within $2 in share price and the CEO ego's from happening 20 years ago. It will be, if it happens a a very good fit and route map. So would NWA/CAL. Place your bets. Somethng happens soon. And what happens to AMR and U.S. Air???

 

[NuGuy]

Heyas,

My bet is on NWA/CAL. It's important to the industry to consolidate the worst crew bases into one airline.

Nu

 

[TWA Dude]

Everybody relax, Oberstar won't allow any of it.

There, I got to mention Oberstar before Gen Lee!

 

[jhwk0309]

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/10/news/companies/delta_merger.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008011015

Check your "in-boxes".

 

[General Lee]

NWA Inc. will survive in some form. Their Pacific Route authority with the 1952? treaty states the routes are to be flown by them. And can't be sold or transfered. NWA also had a poison pill structured into the operation and DAL didn't. Not that it matters in this scenario. Bet they (NWA) makes a deal with Tilton to pull the trigger first with CAL and collect the golden share and then do the DAL merger. The NWA/DAL deal came within $2 in share price and the CEO ego's from happening 20 years ago. It will be, if it happens a a very good fit and route map. So would NWA/CAL. Place your bets. Somethng happens soon. And what happens to AMR and U.S. Air???

That is incorrect. It can be changed. A similar treaty was given to Canadian Airlines, and it was transferred to Air Canada after they bought them. We'll see......


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Diesel-9]

Sorry, but the Air Canada, and all the other deals as in UAL buying Pan Am routes, FedEx getting Flying Tigers Pacific routes were under a different set of circumstances and agreements. That is one of the many values of NWA and its Pacific Route Authority. It is theirs and NWA Inc.'s only. There are a few of the B slots that are negotiable but the bulk must be operated by them/NWA INC. A brilliant move on their part when the treaty was written and NWA helped create JAL. Checci and Wilson looked into selling some of it after the LBO and both governments told them they weren't transferable.

 

[aircowboy]

General it is cool we will still let you wear your double brested suit on Halloween.

 

[airline#5]

Again, there will be no mergers. Too complicated. This whole effort is all for the media to move the stock price of those mentioned.

 

[johnsonrod]

Again, there will be no mergers. Too complicated. This whole effort is all for the media to move the stock price of those mentioned.

Finally some SANITY... I agree that the DOJ could very well neg any merger attempts. And you thought the AWA/USAirways merger integration was messy....

 

[PCL_128]

NWA Inc. will survive in some form. Their Pacific Route authority with the 1952? treaty states the routes are to be flown by them. And can't be sold or transfered. NWA also had a poison pill structured into the operation and DAL didn't. Not that it matters in this scenario. Bet they (NWA) makes a deal with Tilton to pull the trigger first with CAL and collect the golden share and then do the DAL merger. The NWA/DAL deal came within $2 in share price and the CEO ego's from happening 20 years ago. It will be, if it happens a a very good fit and route map. So would NWA/CAL. Place your bets. Somethng happens soon. And what happens to AMR and U.S. Air???

I'm pretty sure that Occam said that those routes are safe even if the name changes to Delta or something else.

 

[General Lee]

Sorry, but the Air Canada, and all the other deals as in UAL buying Pan Am routes, FedEx getting Flying Tigers Pacific routes were under a different set of circumstances and agreements. That is one of the many values of NWA and its Pacific Route Authority. It is theirs and NWA Inc.'s only. There are a few of the B slots that are negotiable but the bulk must be operated by them/NWA INC. A brilliant move on their part when the treaty was written and NWA helped create JAL. Checci and Wilson looked into selling some of it after the LBO and both governments told them they weren't transferable.

I think you are wrong, and regardless, the Japanese love golf. So, one golf game near Mt Fuji will settle it. Let the attorneys deal with it----that is why they are paid the big bucks. Our attorneys are great at Kerioke I hear....

Or, we will just call it Delta Orient. Hey, why did you guys drop the Orient part of your name? Wasn't your full name "Northwest Orient" on those treaties? I think it was? Can you just change your name not to include "Orient?" If you can, then we will change to "Delta."


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Mr.B]

Hi!

Today, analysts are saying DAL/NWA and UAL/CAL soon.

cliff
GRB

This is how it shall be.....and fine by me so I'll never have to share a flightdeck with that General Knob guy.