Merger Partner - ALL US Merger Talk Here

[phasersonstun2]

737 transcon every time all the time. Uncle Ed was nuts.

Yeah... LUV is nuts for running 737's too.

 

[Chicken or Beef??]

Merger Delta and US Airways ..... then combine the routes and get rid of 2/3 of the RJ's. The combined airlines could use 4, 120 seaters a day instead of 10 RJ's on routes like RDU-LGA, GSO-LGA, RIC-LGA, and many many more just like them. Adds pricing power and fixes yield, ATC delays at the same time. Brings back flying from express to mainline. Southwest is prof that a full 120 seater with one crew yields better than three 50 seater and three crews.

Oh ... I forgot Delta is to good for US. Forget it.

AMTRAK is too good for US.

 

[US1YFARE]

AMTRAK is too good for US.

Greyhound is too good for US. At leat their buses are clean.

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

Yeah... LUV is nuts for running 737's too.

Yeah...Uncle Ed isn't running LUV.

 

[AstroLounge]

Yeah... LUV is nuts for running 737's too.

The 737 is NOT a comfortable aircraft for ANY airline on ANY Transcontinental flight. PERIOD. And the 737-300 is still the BIGGEST piece of crap airplane with the galley/bathroom setup. It didn't get the nickname "Satan's Chariot" for being a lush, comfortable ride.

 

[gaucho99]

This article is a few days old, but it has some interesting comments.

Flights to Europe, rather than Asia, will be first out of the gate from Sky Harbor, Kirby said.

But by then the hometown airline could be a lot bigger - and possibly based somewhere other than Tempe.

Kirby wouldn't say whether an apparently scuttled merger attempt between Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines opens up an opportunity for US Airways to jump into the fray.

"We have to wait and see what happens," Kirby said. "We're not in the driver's seat with consolidation, but we'd like to participate."

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/110187

 

[gaucho99]

NW - DL merger still likely.

http://www.btnmag.com/businesstravelnews/h...t_id=1003722611

 

[North by Northwest]

Fencing would have to include ALL a/c existing, and on ORDER/OPTIONED. That for us (NWA) would include all 747-400/200's- 16/24?, A330s-32, 787s-68. For a total of 130 widebodies.

 

[USstew23]

The 737 is NOT a comfortable aircraft for ANY airline on ANY Transcontinental flight. PERIOD. And the 737-300 is still the BIGGEST piece of crap airplane with the galley/bathroom setup. It didn't get the nickname "Satan's Chariot" for being a lush, comfortable ride.

Again it is the carrier's specific configuration of the aircraft. Some carriers had their -300's rear galley's configured like the -400 and the airbus have with ovens, etc.

 

[Travelpro72]

I know US was not alone in it's configuration of the 737-300 but I have never understood why they put the bathrooms last with the galley split in two. The whole bathroom/galley thing? When we had meals and stuff it was horrid. It's no pleasure cruise now either. The 737-400 is SO much easier to work minus the one ton cart.

 

[USstew23]

I know US was not alone in it's configuration of the 737-300 but I have never understood why they put the bathrooms last with the galley split in two. The whole bathroom/galley thing? When we had meals and stuff it was horrid. It's no pleasure cruise now either. The 737-400 is SO much easier to work minus the one ton cart.

One reason could be that we were the launch customer for the -300 (along with WN) and had the first ones off of the assembly line and at the time the configuration with the lavs forward of the galley may not have been in the making (just my thoughts). Maybe they stayed with it to keep things standard, also I think the configuration with the lavs forward of the galley may not have the same capacity as the other. I know CO has the same configuration on their -300's as US does.