UAL's loss is others Gains?

[JETBOUND]

Hey everyone,

First of all let me just say that I was sorry to hear about the filing and I wish all the employees at UAL good luck.

Just curious about opinions on what will likely unfold with the recent UAL chpt.11 filing. Do you all think that the other Majors will benefit from it at all?

I guess what I was curious about is, if you all think that UAL will start selling off some aircraft? If so, at discounted prices? And do you all think that some of the other Majors would pick them up?

I guess my same question goes for USAIR, if their lender actually goes through with his threat of liquidation. Interesting times we are in right now and I wish everyone the best.

 

[ClassG]

Who knows.

Personally, I think the intermediate carriers like SWA, Frontier and Airtran benefit the most, if they can move quickly enought to cover the domestic flying cutbacks.

But if not them, the regionals and contract carriers will be stirring like roaches to jump on any opportunity they can get to take over the United route cutbacks. Either way, as I've said before, someone else still needs to get these passengers where they want to go. United's problems will never result in a net decrease in air travel, just a decrease of air travel on United.

 

[Broke in CVG]

AA will concintrate on taking away marketshare from United in Chicago. They will even pull flights out of St. Louis in order to move to Chicago. IAD will probably not be looted as it's not a big money maker. DAL will probably go after United's west coast opperations. LAX, most definately... SFO maybe but not as likely. DAL was very, very quick to exploit US Air's contraction by going to DCA in a very big way with the CRJs.... they will probably do the same in LAX.

 

[Joseph II]

What do you think the implications to DEN will be? Any chance of AirTran moving in?