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American to take over USAirways Int'l flying
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traderjake
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USAPA Update - International Flying
This week, according to an online article, the Company applied to transfer international routes to American.
"The five airlines involved in the US Airways and American Airlines merger asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to transfer all the international routes of US Airways and its two regional carriers, PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines, to American Airlines and American Eagle." DallasNews.com, April 17, 2013
On Thursday, April 18th, VP - Flight Operations Lyle Hogg, was asked about this at the BPR meeting. He stated he wasn't aware of the application to the DOT, but did confirm that our existing international flying will continue to be flown by US Airways pilots and aircraft as protected by the MOU. Business Intelligence Chairman John Owens confirmed that USAPA had looked into the issue and determined that this is just another required part of the merger going forward. It is a standard practice to transfer the existing routes to the name of the surviving carrier after a merger is completed, and is also a required component of regulatory review.
USAPA Communications
This week, according to an online article, the Company applied to transfer international routes to American.
"The five airlines involved in the US Airways and American Airlines merger asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to transfer all the international routes of US Airways and its two regional carriers, PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines, to American Airlines and American Eagle." DallasNews.com, April 17, 2013
On Thursday, April 18th, VP - Flight Operations Lyle Hogg, was asked about this at the BPR meeting. He stated he wasn't aware of the application to the DOT, but did confirm that our existing international flying will continue to be flown by US Airways pilots and aircraft as protected by the MOU. Business Intelligence Chairman John Owens confirmed that USAPA had looked into the issue and determined that this is just another required part of the merger going forward. It is a standard practice to transfer the existing routes to the name of the surviving carrier after a merger is completed, and is also a required component of regulatory review.
USAPA Communications
TLV O&D stats provided by eolesen and MAH4546 in the thread below:
http://www.airlineforums.com/topic/55129-aa-and-tlv/page__st__12
The July 2012 snapshot posted by eolesen almost supports that conclusion (except that they all have 300-450 more O&D that month, or 10-15 more per day) but the full-year (2011) daily averages provided by MAH4546 in that thread show that PHL had substantially fewer daily O&D than any of those:
DCAJet
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- May 25, 2012
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[sup]WRONG. You are all wrong on this. The transfer application is normally done in mergers but has nothing to do with who operates the metal. Its what you have to do to with the DOT, but does not mean US is giving routes to American, just says after the merger the routes all go under the AA certificate later. UAL-CAL did it, NW-DL did it. How you guys work yourself into a frenzy over standard filings really makes you look silly, makes you look ill informed and a bunch of gossips. Really unbecoming for "professionals" and this is another one of your predictions that will fall flat on its face. [/sup]
DCAJet
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- May 25, 2012
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[sup]WRONG. You are all wrong on this. The transfer application is normally done in mergers but has nothing to do with who operates the metal. Its what you have to do to with the DOT, but does not mean US is giving routes to American, just says after the merger the routes all go under the AA certificate later. UAL-CAL did it, NW-DL did it. How you guys work yourself into a frenzy over standard filings really makes you look silly, makes you look ill informed and a bunch of gossips. Really unbecoming for "professionals" and this is another one of your predictions that will fall flat on its face. [/sup]
Relax. The AA FA who sounded the false alarm in the AA forum (precipitating this thread) realized as much by post #7 of this thread.
jimntx
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I did not "sound a false alarm." I misread it as a lot of people did. I started the thread to see if anyone knew what the article really meant. But, then you can't resist being a jerk at any opportunity, can you?
