Zbeeblebrox74 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (11 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 582 times:
Ok,
I know I'm gonna take a lot of flak and AAA for suggesting this, but I just thought of something amusing.
With all this talk about merging carriers, and several European airlines going belly-up, how about consolidating all of them into one EU mega-carrier sort of like the € (Euro) currency???
The company could be called something like 'EU Airways', but still retain individual national identities, e.g. on the tail, just like the € coins will feature designs from all the 'member states'.
Rickster From Austria, joined Dec 2000, 653 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (11 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 544 times:
That wouldn´t work because of EU regulations on monopolies and international traffic regulations. And it wouldn´t work because of national traditionalism.
For sure it would make sence to give up the so called "every country needs its homecarrier" status wich is somehow not necessary. For me it would make sense to merge some Airlines. But how? Maybe those who join the same Alliance like SAS/LH/OS. Or somehow regional concentrated
SN/KL/LG
LH/SR/OS
AF/IB/TP/AZ/JP/KM
LO/OK/MA
BA/EI
SAS/AY
etc. etc.....
Zbeeblebrox74 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (11 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 485 times:
Interesting.
I've heard suggestions for a 'BeNeLux' carrier.
Rickster, those are some decent combinations of carriers. Perhaps each alliance could carry remnants of its partners on its tail. Though more subtly and tastefully so than the 'Star Alliance' scheme.
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