US Airways Makes Case for Merger With American

[wings396]

In my opinion, a DL and US merger is unlikely due to anti-trust concerns. The first two anti-trust issues are the Shuttle and then market concentration at slot controlled airports.

I suspect DL's interest in the potential consolidation is a fragmentation of AMR with DL obtaining AA's MIA hub and Latin/South American operation, which would round out DL's network. However, this portion of AA's route network would be very important to US as well.

Or Delta could just purchase US in order to rid themselves of a pesky competitor, and divest whatever the government requests them to in order to make it happen. Delta would not purchase US with any intentions of using them to compliment their system. I could see them packing up the CLT hub, and reallocating the A/C and flying elsewhere in the country. This would kill 2 birds with one stone by preventing AA to gain any ground by merging with US, and it would eliminate competition for Delta. I know that it sounds far-fetched, but it was the first thing that entered my mind when I heard that DL was "looking" at US.

 

[Move2CLT]

Getting warmer...

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Source-US-Airways-Executives-Contact-AA-Union-Leaders-147403025.html

 

[fodase]

Getting warmer...

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Source-US-Airways-Executives-Contact-AA-Union-Leaders-147403025.html

Hmmm, where's the great usapa? The scabs are irrelevant

 

[etops1]

Hmmm, where's the great usapa? The scabs are irrelevant

Why must you make this a pilot thing? . Both east and west pilot groups are amongst the most childish groups I have seen. Grow up already .. Geez <_<

 

[Elevation]

Some leaks from Tempe about an announcement on Wednesday, not sure what Wednesday or what they're announcing but it's buzzing on the 10th floor.

 

[Move2CLT]

Why must you make this a pilot thing? . Both east and west pilot groups are amongst the most childish groups I have seen. Grow up already .. Geez <_<

Just the east.

 

[signals]

Why must you make this a pilot thing? . Both east and west pilot groups are amongst the most childish groups I have seen. Grow up already .. Geez <_<

And yet they say I'm a kid in High School

Yeah, yeah, I know...you can't use emoticons as punctuation

 

[signals]

Just the east.

Mirror, mirror

 

[etops1]

Some leaks from Tempe about an announcement on Wednesday, not sure what Wednesday or what they're announcing but it's buzzing on the 10th floor.

B)

 

[etops1]

Very strong rumor of an announcement this week if not tomorrow .

 

[nycbusdriver]

Very strong rumor of an announcement this week if not tomorrow .

Ooooh!

Is it the perennial "BIG ANNOUNCEMENT"????

how exciting. zzzzzzzzzz

 

[etops1]

Ooooh!

Is it the perennial "BIG ANNOUNCEMENT"????

how exciting. zzzzzzzzzz

I don't know bus . But you now how these things go. I would take it with a grain of salt .

 

[robbedagain]

may be the big announcement is US going to build a hub on the moon!!!

 

[PullUp]

Is this Scofield's big announcement finally?

 

[USA320Pilot]

AMR creditors to meet as speculation about merger heats up

By TERRY MAXON

TERRY MAXON The Dallas Morning News
Staff Writer

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Published: 16 April 2012 09:40 PM

The unsecured creditors committee in the American Airlines Inc. bankruptcy meets Tuesday, as speculation heats up about a possible offer from US Airways Group Inc. for a merger with American and parent AMR Corp.

It also comes as all sides prepare for an important court hearing that begins next Monday, in which American’s lawyers begin laying out the carrier’s case for throwing out its labor contracts.

US Airways executives have been talking to American’s three unions, which belong to the unsecured creditors committee, including a face-to-face meeting last Tuesday between the Allied Pilots Association’s board of directors and US Airways chairman and chief executive Doug Parker and president Scott Kirby.

The merger chatter brought a series of unusual statements last week.

First, the airline’s chief pilot told senior executives in a memo that American’s pilots have “very serious concerns” about a US Airways merger.

Then, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas on Friday spoke out against a “hostile takeover,” without mentioning US Airways by name.

That led to an unusual joint statement late Friday night from the presidents of APA, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and Transport Workers Union, in which they urged interested parties to keep an open mind about a possible deal.

After detailing the 14,000 jobs that American’s management wants to cut, the unions said they “have worked tirelessly to mitigate or avoid that scenario entirely.”

“In closing, we respectfully request that all stakeholders of American Airlines — including lawmakers and everyone else with a vested interest in the outcome of the restructuring — withhold judgment about any industry consolidation that could involve our airline until all of the facts become known,” the unions said.

In response, the airline Monday thanked its supporters. “We are in the midst of a complex restructuring that will position us to determine our future and choose the very best path for all of American’s stakeholders.”

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