NW DL Walk Away From Merger

[Airlinelifer]

Let's see, $100 oil and one hundred -9's, who will fold first? NWA just lost their biggest cargo contract, DHL, which is over 40% of their cargo income, right? Again, that is bad for DAL how? Let's see, what is the difference in fuel used on a 747 vs a 777 and what is the cargo and pax difference? Guess that's why no one is buying 747's, huh? And let's not forget all those happy employee groups who get along so famously. Yeah things are looking great over there, so I'm all for giving up my widebody left seat to an old geezer at NWA and I'll gladly throw gear on a raggedy ass airbus for years. Don't know why we aren't in favor of giving NWA the top 1500 seats while we take the bottom 3000. That's so more than fair, where do we sign up? Then when the 747's and -9's get parked we can hit the bricks instead of those guys because they are older after all and bring so much to the party.

Luckily for all involved this exercise just seems to have filled the square of pleasing the DAL board by trying to do a deal so that we can get passed it and go on with our lives. It was always clear that the NWA pilots would over reach hoping to fall back on arbitration to split the positions. What they didn't count on was the fact the deal really wasn't very important and DAL was serious about walking away if the SLI wasn't fair. NWA hasn't settled anything without arbitration in hundreds of years so it was a safe bet they would not start now. Problem solved, carry on. Go on back to fighting with eachother. That hasn't changed since we used NWA for practice interviews back in '88 and likely never will. Only one guy in our unit ever went there and he left as soon as Fed Ex called. All of us had the same impression and reason for staying away: the pilot ranks are dysfunctional and it appears just as true today, which is pretty sad.

Dopey rhetoric, save it for someone who gives a sh*t.........

 

[mrman]

Ok my crystal ball says now NW shuts down and the Dallas boys (AA and WN) pick apart. NW parks all planes and shuts down ala Braniff, AA buys Pacific, 767 and 777's WN buys MSP gates move operations to DTW gates and LGA gates and slots. Employess are avoided at all cost to avoid integration issues if possible. NW pieces are woth more than its market cap.

 

[RobertD]

Ok my crystal ball says now NW shuts down and the Dallas boys (AA and WN) pick apart. NW parks all planes and shuts down ala Braniff, AA buys Pacific, 767 and 777's WN buys MSP gates move operations to DTW gates and LGA gates and slots. Employess are avoided at all cost to avoid integration issues if possible. NW pieces are woth more than its market cap.

I'm thinking the NW pilots are too smart for that.

 

[FWAAA]

Ok my crystal ball says now NW shuts down and the Dallas boys (AA and WN) pick apart. NW parks all planes and shuts down ala Braniff, AA buys Pacific, 767 and 777's WN buys MSP gates move operations to DTW gates and LGA gates and slots. Employess are avoided at all cost to avoid integration issues if possible. NW pieces are woth more than its market cap.

NW doesn't fly any 767s or 777s.

My crystal ball says that AA finally finishes what it started eight years ago - it buys NW.

 

[Kev3188]

Ok my crystal ball says now NW shuts down...

You need a new crystal ball; yours is clearly cracked.

 

[Come Fly with Me]

You need a new crystal ball; yours is clearly cracked.

LOL!

 

[North by Northwest]

You need a new crystal ball; yours is clearly cracked.

He he...Kev, that "cracked" me up!

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Ok my crystal ball says now NW shuts down and the Dallas boys (AA and WN) pick apart. NW parks all planes and shuts down ala Braniff, AA buys Pacific, 767 and 777's WN buys MSP gates move operations to DTW gates and LGA gates and slots. Employess are avoided at all cost to avoid integration issues if possible. NW pieces are woth more than its market cap.

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WHOA....Dude,

WHAT kind of POTENT SH!T are you Tokin' on