Mergers and OCC relocations

[bgaviator]

Curious to know if this CO/UAL thing goes down Monday like all the news reports are saying, would the two companies most likely merge OCCs into one big location, or keep a seperate Houston and Chicago OCC? What happened with Delta/Northwest? Are they operating separate, or did they combine down to Atlanta? Thanks.

 

[dispatchguy]

MSP DX moved to DLs OCC in ATL. When they were redesigning the DL OCC, they preplanned all the NWA positions, so when NWA moved south, they would have a place to go.

They ran their airline (NWA) from the ATL DL OCC with their (NWA) systems and processes until the fleet was completely integrated. All pre-merger NWA fleets are now on the DL Flight Planning System; NWAs WORLDFLIGHT no longer exists for mainline flt ops - they're all on DLs OSS; Worldflight still exists for the regionals.

They have announced already that if it were to happen, that CO HQ would move to Chicago - not sure if that would include the CO SOC.