Hp/us Merger

[UseYourHead]

700,

Where were you during this period of history, I thought everyone knew about this. In fact, we even had a US Airways/American dedicated page on the pilot website.

700 wrote:
There was never going to be a merger with AA, where you getting this stuff?

And US' problem with Sabre was they bought the stripped down cheap version and never went with the top of the line program.

According to former United MEC chairman Rick Dubinsky in a letter to the United pilots written I believe on May 28, 2000 that I have read, along with his comments at a US Airways ALPA MEC meeting I attended, United made its last merger bid for US Airways because American was about to reach a formal deal with Stephen Wolf to acquire the Arlington-based airline.

It's my understanding that American and US Airways held on and off merger talks since 1995.

Regards,

USA320Pilot

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[MarkMyWords]

Weren't the STAR partners working on a possible new reservations system?

 

[funguy2]

IIRC correctly when UA planned to buy US for $60/share, the BOD was authorized to go up to $80/share if AA started a bidding war for US.

But honestly, who doesn't have merger 'talks'?

"Well, what do you think about merging?"
"The routes would work nice but the fleet and employees would be a b*tch"

Other than AA/UA and DL/US, what airlines don't have those talks?

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I completely agree... In listening to Parker speak over the past year or so, he's said they've been talking to ATA, AirTran, and US Airways... And those are the one's mentioned PUBLICLY. I have heard comments from AWA, US Airways, and other industry executives that indicate that the airlines discuss mergers "fairly regularly" and obviously 99.5% of the time, not much comes of it.

UCT Indeed.

 

[1ab]

Weren't the STAR partners working on a possible new reservations system?

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Yeh they were suppose to call it star net...