AA/CO Alliance & AA/US Merger

[chucky]

It will be interesting to see how the alliance between AA and CO will add any
benefits to either airline since both compete out of TX, NY and Lat Am.
Like I said earlier, this was more a defensive move against UA.

 

[LGA Fleet Service]

Better an alliance with Continental than a merge with US Air.

 

[The Goose]

they are going with LCC

That's fine - even though the PBGC initially agreed not to pursue any further financial action against UAL, somebody is eventually going to get pissed that the pensions were dumped on the taxpayers and United was sitting on their Frequent Flyer milage program, worth quite a bit by their own estimate a few months ago.

Boys and girls, that's bankrupcy fraud.

Any company that would merge with UAL now would be doing so with the understanding that possibly they may both sink if the government plays the fraud card - at that point, all previous agreements between UAL and the PBGC/government would be null and void.

 

[eolesen]

It will be interesting to see how the alliance between AA and CO will add any
benefits to either airline since both compete out of TX, NY and Lat Am.
Like I said earlier, this was more a defensive move against UA.

Personally, I'd welcome the opportunity to have CO be part of oneworld, as long as I can still get AAdvantage miles on CO... It doubles my scheduling opportunities when flying on business, which is one of the few things that has worked well with Skyteam having three US partners and Star having two US partners.

Neither CO and AA have a lot of LUV for WN, so the impact in Texas and surrounding states where all three are major players would certainly be interesting. Likewise to Latin America.

Only thing that CO brings to the table that nobody else has is Micronesia. Not exactly a hot-house for tourism, but the GUM hub does present some interesting opportunities with regard to Open Skies. Flying BKK-GUM-LAX doesn't require fifth freedom rights like BKK-NRT-SFO does for UA or NWA.....