American Airlines - Southwest Airlines

[TWU informer]

Lot of rumors floating today about Southwest and AA being in behind the scenes talks about a possible ride together if merger mania breaks out and leaves them in the dust.

I wonder how that would work out anyway?

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

Lot of rumors floating today about Southwest and AA being in behind the scenes talks about a possible ride together if merger mania breaks out and leaves them in the dust.

I wonder how that would work out anyway?

Think of Southwest as a piece of "MATTER". Now think of AA as a piece of "ANTI-MATTER". Put the two together and "BOOOOOOOOMMMMM"!!!!!!

 

[AAStew]

That would be Nirvana,,,as long as every bit of AA culture could be wiped out of existance....not gonna happen. But then again it would be Herb Kelliher's coupe de grace before he fully retires. No....it's not going to happen.

 

[Boomer]

I do not believe the hype but am willing to game the scenario:

AA files pre-packaged BK; file 1113 Abrogations for all labor groups; and,

Place the MD-80's with AE; and,

Divest AE to MESA and the tender mercies of Orenstien: and,

Complete the spin-off of AE with the aquired assets outside of AMR but retaining some residual value; and,

Merge with LUV for the Domestic feed; Legacy retaining International Haul.

Choppy, but relatively relevant to the available data...

 

[The Goose]

I do not believe the hype but am willing to game the scenario:

AA files pre-packaged BK; file 1113 Abrogations for all labor groups; and,

Place the MD-80's with AE; and,

Divest AE to MESA and the tender mercies of Orenstien: and,

Complete the spin-off of AE with the aquired assets outside of AMR but retaining some residual value; and,

Merge with LUV for the Domestic feed; Legacy retaining International Haul.

Choppy, but relatively relevant to the available data...

That would be such a rotten and low-life thing to do to a company's employees I can see the idea getting approval from all AA management personnel and the board of directors (that is, as long as they get a bone-us out of the deal).

 

[TIME FOR CHANGE]

Southwest has nothing to gain by merging with AA
Their years of profitibility makes my point.

Why merge with a company who has bad labor relations and a useless management staff who plumeted a billion dollar company to the brink of bankruptcy.

Yeah SWA is banging on AA's door

HAHAHAHA

 

[777 fixer]

I have heard so many rumors over the years that turned out just to be that, rumors. IMO this is nothing more than someone talking hypothetically then another person misinterpreting what they were saying and presto, instant rumor.

 

[The Goose]

I have heard so many rumors over the years that turned out just to be that, rumors. IMO this is nothing more than someone talking hypothetically then another person misinterpreting what they were saying and presto, instant rumor.

More than likely, you're right, but there's a company suck I know of that'll take it for real and start freaking out. What entertainment!

 

[777 fixer]

More than likely, you're right, but there's a company suck I know of that'll take it for real and start freaking out. What entertainment!

What's interesting is that no one heard so much as a peep about the AA-TWA merger in 2001. The first sign that something was up is when it was announced on the nightly news.

 

[Garfield1966]

SW is a one aircraft domestic carrier. Their MO does not work for more than one aircraft type. AA are not SW and SW is not AA. SW would be committing suicide. There is no purpose for the two carriers to merge.

 

[MCI transplant]

What's interesting is that no one heard so much as a peep about the AA-TWA merger in 2001. The first signs that something was up is when it was announced on the nightly news.

<_< ----- Best kept secret in the Industry! We didn't see it coming ether!

 

[BuffaloJoe]

SW is a one aircraft domestic carrier. Their MO does not work for more than one aircraft type. AA are not SW and SW is not AA. SW would be committing suicide. There is no purpose for the two carriers to merge.

Plus side, AA would get WN 700's to replace the M80's. That is the ONLY thing that would be good for that merger. Nothing else would make sense. DFW-NRT flight would be open seating.

 

[markkus757]

oil and water have a better chance of merging in my opinion. Or maybe Coke and Pepsi, or perhaps McDonalds and Burger King - well, you get the picture.

 

[The Goose]

Regardless of what the executives dream/don't dream up, the scary thing is most of them anymore aren't really business oriented people at all like (even though his background was finance) Bob Crandall was at American.

The bean counters in charge now at AMR have spent billions of dollars to retain "management services" companies like RLG and Overland in order to "put us in our places" and make us like it (yeah - right). As their techniques are refined and redefined, our job quality will sink further.

This isn't a time for us, the workers, to worry about mergers - this is a time for us to find a way out of the airline industry and let said industry and executives continue their inevitable decline without us.

 

[will fix for food]

I do not believe the hype but am willing to game the scenario:

AA files pre-packaged BK; file 1113 Abrogations for all labor groups; and,

Place the MD-80's with AE; and,

Divest AE to MESA and the tender mercies of Orenstien: and,

Complete the spin-off of AE with the aquired assets outside of AMR but retaining some residual value; and,

Merge with LUV for the Domestic feed; Legacy retaining International Haul.

Choppy, but relatively relevant to the available data...

JO has enough problems right now. Skywest on the other hand....

If there continues to be consolidation in the regional sector it can do nothing but drive the price for feed up. American may just end up paying an arm and a leg in the future for something they essentially get for free now. Interesting.

My guess would be that a rationalized regional feed industry would charge the legacies just under the cost of providing their own feed in-house.