I didn't say that US employees are below average in every category and I am also aware that DL has eroded the potential for a career for many airport type jobs and have acknowledged as much.
No response to show how AA has improved service to STL over what TWA offered? I'm shocked. Though, I can answer that. AA has provided the opportunity to WN to increase service for STL residents immensely. They just don't have the non-stops to Europe and Tel Aviv anymore. What was the problem with AA and the Israeli government? Something about closing down the operation without paying the Israeli employees the legally required severance pay? Surely, AA wouldn't screw over employees, now would they?
I took enough of a read through it to know there are major issues in the conclusions they came to:
I agree... but the reality is that the vast majority of humanity doesn't think and in some ways it is worse in a democracy where everyone is free to express their ideas.
The measure of whether consolidation is good for the consumer or not is whether airlines become far more profitable than average American companies, whether airline employees and executives become far better compensated than other industries, and whether service deteriorates as a result of the consolidated marketplace.
The DOT/DOJ will measure a potential AA/US merger on the basis of what antitrust rules and the standards that have been applied to other recent mergers - that is the basis of case law, of which antitrust regulation is related.
WN 2012 AA 2012 WN 2003 AA 2003
Orig Dest Freq Orig Dest Freq Orig Dest Freq Orig Dest Freq
STL ABQ 1 - STL ABQ 2 STL ABQ 2
STL BHM 1 - STL BHM 1 -
* STL BNA 2 - - STL BNA 10
* STL BOS 2 - - STL BOS 4
STL BWI 5 STL DCA 3 STL BWI 3 STL BWI 5
- - STL CLE 3 STL CLE 5
STL CMH 2 - STL CMH 2 STL CMH 4
STL DAL 9 STL DFW 9 - STL DFW 9
* STL DEN 4 - - STL DEN 4
STL DTW 2 - STL DTW 3 STL DTW 5
STL EWR 2 STL LGA 4 STL EWR 5
STL FLL 1 STL MIA 2 STL FLL 3
STL HOU 4 - STL HOU 6 STL IAH 3
STL LAS 4 - STL LAS 1 STL LAS 4
STL LAX 2 STL LAX 3 STL LAX 6
STL LIT 2 - STL LIT 3 STL LIT 3
STL MCI 5 - STL MCI 6 STL MCI 9
STL MCO 4 - STL MCO 3 STL MCO 4
STL MDW 10 STL ORD 9 STL MDW 10 STL ORD 12
* STL MKE 2 - STL MKE 8
* STL MSP 3 - STL MSP 6
* STL MSY 1 - STL MSY 4
STL OKC 2 - STL OKC 2 STL OKC 5
STL OMA 3 - STL OMA 2 STL OMA 6
* STL PHL 2 - STL PHL 5
STL PHX 3 - STL PHX 4 STL PHX 3
* STL RDU 1 - STL RDU 3
* STL RSW 1 - STL RSW 1
* STL SAN 1 - STL SAN 3
STL SDF 2 - STL SDF 4 STL SDF 5
* STL SEA 1 - - STL SEA 5
- - STL SLC 2 STL SLC 3
= STL TPA 2 - STL TPA 1 STL TPA 3
= STL TUL 2 - STL TUL 3 STL TUL 5
88 30 61 162
OTHER 259
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