1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5819 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 6182 times:
I once thought of a three-way merger of DL/NW/CO. A merger that you describe would be a total monopoly, and would NEVER be approved.
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JBo From Sweden, joined Jan 2005, 2281 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 6161 times:
Quoting 1337Delta764 (Reply 1): I once thought of a three-way merger of DL/NW/CO. A merger that you describe would be a total monopoly, and would NEVER be approved.
I'm well aware of that. Note my emoticons at the end, they denote that I was not being serious at all and very much joking.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
AEflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 22 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 6097 times:
I really do believe that Conteltedicanornus better captures the essence of commercial aviation in the states.
Slogans could include;
"You'll be Content with Conteltedicarnornus"
"Our planes are enormous, on Conteltedicarnornus"
"We're Conteltedicarnooooornus, and We Work Hard to Know Why It's Time to Fly With Us, and It Shows!"
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 9 Reply 4, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 6064 times:
Quote: "You'll be Content with Conteltedicarnornus"
"Our planes are enormous, on Conteltedicarnornus"
"We're Conteltedicarnooooornus, and We Work Hard to Know Why It's Time to Fly With Us, and It Shows!"
All sung to the tune of "Supercalifragelisticexpealidocious"
Pan Am:The World's Most Experienced Airline - P(oor) S(ailor's) A(irline): San Diego's Hometown Airline-Catch Our Smile!
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21041 posts, RR: 60 Reply 5, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 6036 times:
Quoting AEflyguy (Reply 3): "We're Conteltedicarnooooornus, and We Love to Work Hard to Know Why It's Time to Fly With Us, and It Shows!"
And yet WN would still be more profitable because of their oil commodities business...
Poor F9, AS and FL. Left in the dust...
Of all the things to worry about... the Wookie has no pants.
SonOfACaptain From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1747 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 5999 times:
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21041 posts, RR: 60 Reply 8, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 5997 times:
Skibum9 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1229 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 5892 times:
Quoting 1337Delta764 (Reply 1): I once thought of a three-way merger of DL/NW/CO. A merger that you describe would be a total monopoly, and would NEVER be approved.
How would it be a TOTAL monopoly with SW carrying 33% of domestic traffic? Even though it would never be approved.
AADC10 From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 1863 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 5832 times:
There have been some published reports that because of NW's golden shares in CO and the resulting ability by NW to block deals with CO, it would be difficult for CO to merge with anyone except NW.
Although the US is geographically different than most other countries, few other countries have more than two legacy carriers and two LCCs. I can see regulators allowing as few as four remaining legacy carriers, maybe even three, providing that none dominate the entire market.
Certain combinations would probably require divesting some routes, as in the case of US/DL, they would probably have to divest part of their Northeast shuttles. The weakest combination would be granted those routes.
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21041 posts, RR: 60 Reply 13, posted (6 years 7 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 5788 times:
DL+NW+CO would not be a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.
It would only dominate airports it already dominates in three parts.
Quoting Whappeh (Reply 12): With a name like that, I'd fly them.
Amerifly
FlyAmerica
All American Airways
American Flight Systems
United America Airplane Related Company
Of all the things to worry about... the Wookie has no pants.
SLCUT2777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 3869 posts, RR: 11 Reply 18, posted (6 years 7 months 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 5419 times:
Quoting Helvknight (Reply 15): Nah, call it Air America. Oh, wait isn't that a radio station?
Nah, lets call it AirUSA as opposed to Air Canada, and have it become a nationalized industry just like conrail was and Amtrack now is and no jobs will be lost and everyone belongs to a union. SOCIALISM RULES!
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NYCFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1381 posts, RR: 10 Reply 19, posted (6 years 7 months 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 5401 times:
I would sign up for their frequent flyer program. Imagine the points you'd rack up!
But I would sign up for the LCCs program as well, once they merge and form Southbluefrontran
(to be renamed Southbluefrontran Am once they swallow up a certain Trenton-based skidmark of an operation)
Alaska737 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1056 posts, RR: 6 Reply 20, posted (6 years 7 months 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 5379 times:
AS, F9, B6, FL and HA could merge and form Alasuletieraiian-Tran
How about this, TWA, Eastern, Western, PSA, Pan-Am and Piedmont
Coronado990 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 1590 posts, RR: 2 Reply 22, posted (6 years 7 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 5131 times:
Central America could get into the mix and have a new merged airline called "Copatacalasca". I always thought that had a nice ring to it.
KingAir200 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 1587 posts, RR: 2 Reply 23, posted (6 years 7 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 5100 times:
How about Ameriflop?
In the case of F9, FL, and B6, I think jetFrontierTran has a nice ring to it.
How about that new Columbus based outfit? Skybus, I think. They should merge with Virgin America, forming AmericaSkyVirgin. They could have a great paint scheme, combining Skybus' orange/yellow fuselage with Virgin America's red tail.
YOW From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (6 years 7 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 5051 times:
How about calling the new mega-carrier MonopolyAir. If you pass through ATL, ORD or LAX, deduct $200 from your airfare.
25 BAW716: Not a prayer that this kind of deal would ever get approved by the DOT. baw716
26 Futurecaptain: Would there be anywhere else to connect if this goes through? What if I fly ATL-ORD-LAX? Do I save $600 then? lol.
27 JBo: Must you rain on our fun? I'm surprised no one's discussed what kind of livery it would have. Probably just all-white with a symbolic middle finger o
28 AndrewUber: I suppose that would be the airline version of Conrail...
29 SonOfACaptain: Naw, rumor has it UA is selling Ted off to Virgin America to create... Virgin Ted. -SOAC
30 MichiganMAN: and southwest still is more profitable than them
31 YOW: So this would become the real version of ConAir and not just some fictitious movie, lol. Only if you take the money from the 'Community Chest' small-
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