Merger News

[FWAAA]

I see PHL, ORD, DFW, CLT, DCA, JFK, LAX, MIA and LGA staying strong and maybe even growing, I see probably some DCA slots having to be given up, I see PHX as the causality in this merger.

As the largest carrier at BOS, I see the new AA growing there as well.

My guess is that some adjustments are made at PHX, but that a bigger/stronger AA won't cede PHX to WN (which has its own issues right now that will keep it from growing at will - it ain't 1995 anymore).

 

[700UW]

AA is not the largest carrier at BOS, they have been shrinking and announced more cuts last month:

Logan International Airport’s biggest carrier for most of the past decade has shrunk to the fifth-largest, carrying just 11 percent of the airport’s passengers last year, down from a peak of 21 percent in 2004. The carrier now flies to just six cities nonstop from Boston, down from 33 in 2003. At the end of March, the number of American nonstop destinations out of Boston will fall even further when the carrier cuts its only remaining international flight, to London.


Even before the airline declared bankruptcy in 2011 and entered into merger talks with US Airways expected to be completed soon, American Airlines was pulling back from second-tier cities to focus on its five biggest domestic markets: Dallas-Fort Worth, where the airline is based, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.


These five cities are also the only destinations American will fly to nonstop from Boston after it drops its London service. The carrier also operates seasonal service between Boston and Paris.

http://www.boston.com/business/2013/01/30/american-airlines-vanishing-act-boston/IPrQPG9xwcIFKf522dvPIO/story.html

 

[FWAAA]

AA is not the largest carrier at BOS, they have been shrinking and announced more cuts last month:

Read my post again. I said "the new AA." The new AA is the largest airline at BOS, when you combine PMUS and its regional operations plus PMAA. By "new AA," I figured everyone would understand that meant the new, merged AA. As in AA + US.

It's funny watching you attempt to correct other posters, even when they're correct.

 

[700UW]

Hate to tell you but you arent correct.

A straight-ahead combination of the airlines would make the new American Airlines the second largest carrier at Logan, serving slightly fewer passengers than JetBlue Airways, which accounted for a quarter of the airport’s traffic last year. Since US Airways and American don’t compete on any nonstop routes out of Logan, the merger is not expected to reduce flights for local travelers.

JetBlue is still larger.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/02/15/american-airways-merger-not-expected-have-big-impact-boston/jIN0Z8LEZ4opHmOAKTilBL/story.html

 

[FWAAA]

Hate to tell you but you arent correct.

JetBlue is still larger.

Katie Johnson, the journalist credited with that story, was incorrect. I've done the math. Anyway, by revenue share, the new AA is far larger than B6 at BOS, even if it carried a few more passengers last year.

 

[700UW]

So prove it then.

 

[700UW]

http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_region/article_d0cc2e50-7774-11e2-af67-001a4bcf6878.html

 

[737823]

Seriously, no one cares about CLT yes there are a few back office jobs for BofA, former Wachovia (now Wells Fargo) but honestly MIA is where the money is, not CLT. BofA HQ is in CLT, but again Brian Moynihan lives in Wellesley MA and many of the key decision makers are in BOS/NYC, not CLT.

Josh

 

[700UW]

Once again you have no clue what you are talking about:

http://charlottecham...-500-companies/

*Lowe’s and Domtar are located outside of Mecklenburg County but in the Charlotte region, so they are not included in the headquarters ranking. The ranking does include Family Dollar in Matthews, N.C., which is in Mecklenburg County.
Six of the 500 companies are headquartered in Mecklenburg County. This ranks Charlotte eighth nationally in number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered within the county. These headquarters represent more than $171.5 billion in revenue for 2011. Lowe’s, which is headquartered in nearby Mooresville, and Domtar, which is in Fort Mill, S.C., increase the Charlotte area headquarters’ revenue to $227.3 billion. More importantly, 264 of the Fortune 500 companies s have made a commitment to the city by placing one or more of their facilities within the county. This report lists a key representative of each of the Fortune companies that have a facility in Mecklenburg County.

Gee Charlotte ranks 8th in the US for Fortune 500 Company HDQs.

And since this report Chiquita moved their HDQs.

 

[Veritas]

Seriously, no one cares about CLT...

Josh

Seriously, no one here cares about your overentitled opinions. Why don't you go play with your buddies in the idiotic thread on FlyerTalk.

 

[AAviator]

delete

 

[700UW]

That would be three, and PIT isnt a hub and hasnt been in several years.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/states/NC.html

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/states/FL.html

And MIA would be two.

 

[Kev3188]

I see Cleveland gone as a hub.

Wrong merger.

As the largest carrier at BOS, I see the new AA growing there as well.

Same here.

BOS is an interesting market, and while I certainly don't see it returning to the days when (the old) AA had de facto hub there, I think a resurgence is certainly plausible.

 

[700UW]

US had a mini-hub there sort of back in the day and even flew BOS-FRA for a bit, before returning it to CLT.

 

[Kev3188]

Interesting!

I don't think we'll see that (or a return of BOS-PQI flights, for that matter), but I definitely think that the mass between the combined carriers justifies some expansion.