yaariseattle From United States of America, joined Dec 2009, 2 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2785 times:
I have read a couple of times that US still has some anger at BA for breaking their traffic agreement back in the late 80's early 90's. If AA and US merge, how do you think US will react to BA?
deltaflyertoo From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 1589 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2759 times:
US is such a different airline now then what it was in the 90s when that happened. Seeing Parker's hunger for a merger (and he knows very well BA comes w/ the package) I can't imagine that really is a widespread feeling/issue amongst US that would come up in the merger.
Other than that I don't see any other affect on BA other than I could see them starting a 777-200 service from LHR to CLT everyday.
USAirALB From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 2681 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 2262 times:
For starters, the merger would open up a plethora of cities in the Northeast and Southeast. With the old US/BA alliance, the Southeast was well served, but since the end of the alliance, the Southeast has generally been lacking BA codeshare or OneWorld service. Think cities like ILM, HHH, MYR as well as cities in the Northeast like ALB, PVD, MHT, PWM..
BigGSFO From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2755 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1859 times:
How will BA react? With open arms. IAG has already indicated they might be interested as an investor. The substantial domestic feed, especially along the east coast, will increase traffic and business contracts. We would probably also see increased traffic to secondary airports in the UK, as well as a boost to Spain on IB.
avek00 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 4092 posts, RR: 18 Reply 7, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1791 times:
Quoting BigGSFO (Reply 6): How will BA react? With open arms. IAG has already indicated they might be interested as an investor. The substantial domestic feed, especially along the east coast, will increase traffic and business contracts. We would probably also see increased traffic to secondary airports in the UK, as well as a boost to Spain on IB.
It's not that simple, and that's precisely why IAG has decided to meddle in the AMR bankruptcy. Odds are that at the time BA/IB and AA hammered out the Joint Business Agreement, the European side was probably able to extract far better terms due to AA's then-precarious position. While it's highly unlikely that US would insist upon scrapping the JBA, it's entirely possible that Parker would demand substantial revisions to the arrangement that would potentially compromise IAG's financial interests. Thus, IAG has taken steps to ensure it retains substantial clout in the disposition of AMR.
LHRFlyer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2010, 740 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (8 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1682 times:
Quoting avek00 (Reply 7): Odds are that at the time BA/IB and AA hammered out the Joint Business Agreement, the European side was probably able to extract far better terms due to AA's then-precarious position. While it's highly unlikely that US would insist upon scrapping the JBA, it's entirely possible that Parker would demand substantial revisions to the arrangement that would potentially compromise IAG's financial interests.
I don't where you got that idea from. The AA/BA uses an incremental revenue sharing model and I doubt AA/US would insist on its revision on more favourable terms to it.
If AA and US merge, BA will gain more US gateways and connecting traffic opportunities so it can only really be a positive. In fact, BA still gets some onward feed from US Airways at PHX even though they are now in separate alliances.
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