Unitedchicago From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 90 posts, RR: 0 Posted (12 years 12 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 870 times:
So...would an AA/NWA combined company be bigger than UA/US?
There are a lot of drawbacks to AA/NWA:
-Incompatible fleet types
-NWA's old DC-9's
-Heavy midwest presence + AA at Chicago = anti-trust
-Still no big presence for either in the west
The big bonus is AA's access to the pacific with a NWA merger.
All in all, I think UA is the best positioned winner any way you add it up. This thing is gonna play out for over a year!
Etops767 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (12 years 12 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 784 times:
I believe DL will go after NW, very little route overlap and DL can pickup routes in aisia where DL is weak.Major draw backs are that NW is very unionized and they do have alot of old a/c,(DC-9's,DC-10's) and Airbuses wich DL wants no part of.
Unitedchicago From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 90 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (12 years 12 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 783 times:
DL/NWA does make more sense in my mind. DL doesn't have a strong mid-west presence.
Akelley728 From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2101 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (12 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 732 times:
DL Widget Head From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 2039 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (12 years 11 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 728 times:
Delta and Continental are next to jump in the conga line...together.
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