Merger Mania Thread

nycbusdriver said:
How can they be a "major competitor" when "the two airlines have very little overlapping routes"?

Slow news day....let's make something up!
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To be fair, US and ALK, have (when connecting hubs are taken into account) have a lot over overlapping routes. Anything from California-Hawaii could be routed through Phoenix (or through LA). SEA, could (notice the could) funnel a lot of domesitc US passengers to Japan and Hawaii. US has a decenet (not great) domesitc network. I personally don't believe it, but I have heard worse merger rumors.
 
You can say the same about DL/NW and CO/UA if you count flights from a hub to a city, but the Feds look at same routes not different city to the same city.
 
700UW said:
You can say the same about DL/NW and CO/UA if you count flights from a hub to a city, but the Feds look at same routes not different city to the same city.
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US Airways ($7.00 a share) would buy Alaska (that is currently going for $65 a share)? And the money is coming from Dougies savings account correct?
 
ContUNITEus said:
US Airways ($7.00 a share) would buy Alaska (that is currently going for $65 a share)? And the money is coming from Dougies savings account correct?
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Stock price is a meaningless factor in these deals. What if US wanted to buy Spirit? Spirit doesn't even HAVE a stock price, since it is privately held. Does that mean the deal can't be done?

Not that I believe for one New York second that this rumor is true, the money could easily come from outside sources. That's how the US/AW deal was done. The west folks love to think that AW bought US, but they didn't have a pot to piss in, let alone money to buy another carrier no matter what the stock price or funds required to get it our of Chapter 11.

Bruce Lakefield, the vice chairman of the LCC board, has the connections and the savvy to get the money if it makes sense for the stockholders, just like he did in 2005. (The "sense" of that deal might be debated based on the outcome.)

The money is out there to do this deal. It's just not sitting in LCC coffers. But it's not going to happen anyway. Relative stock prices just have nothing at all to do with it.
 
Alaska is actually well-managed and has low costs, both of which are not the case at USAir.

If Alaska and US get together, it will certainly be a purchase by AS along with a management housecleaning. Goodbye Parker, Kirby and all the other bush-league management at Tempe.
 
700UW said:
Who is Alaskan Airlines?

You would think a newspaper would know the correct name of an airline.

Sounds BS to me.
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Sounds like Tempe is "leaking" merger rumors again to the media to try to resurrect some kind of interest. You know "we are running a great airline" so says Doug.
See if we get a the obligatory comment from out West informing the world that "Parker believes the industry needs consolidation and LCC is pro airline consolidation" (yet the only one left without a merger partner because of his management team) might lend some credence to Team Tempe leaking "wishful merger" rumors.

Aside from the usual plethora of blather that eminates from Tempe (well....ok......lanyards)- it is surprising that the desert Dream Team doesn't have a comment on this one.

"Did you hear we are looking at 747s?"

I put about as much confidence in that statement being credible as I do we are in merger talks with AK.
 
If Alaska and US get together, it will certainly be a purchase by AS along with a management housecleaning. Goodbye Parker, Kirby and all the other bush-league management at Tempe.
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And within three months everyone here would be complaining about what horrible management Seattle is and how their brains must be all wet!
 
They are, they contracted out the ramp overnight, laid off every ramper in SEA and then lost the arbitration on it and still hasnt been resolved.

Know your history.
 
UPNAWAY said:
And within three months everyone here would be complaining about what horrible management Seattle is and how their brains must be all wet!
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Well, the entitlement east would. They have nothing to add but bile and anger. Should have let US die its rightful death.
 
Three rounds of concessions in two bankruptcies, boy what a sense of entitlement the east has, shame.
 
What US needs is to merge with an airline that has an in-house pilot union that isn't ALPA. This way it would be a three way fight for the finish :lol: Are Spirit pilots in-house? Alpa USAPA and SAPA, anyone?
 
signals said:
What US needs is to merge with an airline that has an in-house pilot union that isn't ALPA. This way it would be a three way fight for the finish :lol: Are Spirit pilots in-house? Alpa USAPA and SAPA, anyone?
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We would have three years of lawsuits about what list to use, maybe more. And that's before we even get to the actual integration and inevitable arbitration. Then you will have the subsequent lawsuits and additional legal wrangling.
 
nycbusdriver said:
Stock price is a meaningless factor in these deals. What if US wanted to buy Spirit? Spirit doesn't even HAVE a stock price, since it is privately held. Does that mean the deal can't be done?
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Actually, Spirit's stock is SAVE and it's going for $13. They just went public a month or so ago.
 
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