UAL ramps up merger talks

[ThirdSeatHero]

http://www.thestreet.com/pf/newsanalysis/b...e/10363174.html

And the hits just keep on coming....... 🙄

 

[Cosmo]

IMHO, Brace was only referring to CO and DL, not US, since he talked about carriers with a presence in the Caribbean and Latin America. While US has a strong Caribbean presence, it has almost no presence in Latin America other than a few flights to Mexico and Costa Rica (IIRC). Plus the local traffic to Latin America is much larger from either IAH or ATL than it is from CLT. And this doesn't even consider the current operational and managerial mess that is US, which makes UA's management look good (of course, that's not much of a compliment). Thus, my belief that Brace was only talking about CO and DL.

 

[US1YFARE]

it has almost no presence in Latin America other than a few flights to Mexico and Costa Rica (IIRC).

i think US serves over 10 cities in Mexico from PHX and CLT and PHL....most of them being out of PHX. They also serve 2 cities in Costa Rica, Belize and Guatamala City. No powerhouse for sure-but either is DL, but US's Carib service is solid out of PHL and CLT. I wouldn't consider IAH a southeast hub/presence.

 

[The Gopher]

For the love of God I hope it's JetBlue. Just staple those DEL BY MODERATOR below all of us on the scale.

Of course they could merge seniority lists and have the same result for the most part. JBU had it's first flight on 11 FEB 2000.

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[luv2fly]

No powerhouse for sure-but either is DL, but US's Carib service is solid out of PHL and CLT.

Delta
vs.
US

 

[US1YFARE]

Delta
vs.
US

seems like an awful lot of codeshare partners for DL.

The map you show for US leaves out CLT and PHX flights as well as DCA, BOS, LGA, and LAX.

 

[luv2fly]

seems like an awful lot of codeshare partners for DL.

The map you show for US leaves out CLT and PHX flights as well as DCA, BOS, LGA, and LAX.

Adding CLT and focus cities really appears to add little more. Delta's international structure appears to offer far more latin destinations than US.
In addition, Delta's Atlantic presence is far greater than US's.
IMO, UA would be much better served with a proposed UA/DL merge.
CLT PHX
Focus cities.

 

[Fly]

All agree with you Luv except those who work at US.

(If it is a DL/UA merger, I sure hope DL is the management team running the company)

 

[isthisok]

I think Delta would benefit UAL more than US. The only problem is Delta is nonunion in alot of their departments and if UAL management is half as slimmy as US then they will go to the mediation board and ask for an election. It happened when US bought Piedmont. Final scenario no union! 😱

 

[donttouchthebeauty]

I think Delta would benefit UAL more than US. The only problem is Delta is nonunion in alot of their departments and if UAL management is half as slimmy as US then they will go to the mediation board and ask for an election. It happened when US bought Piedmont. Final scenario no union! 😱

Correct, but if it came down to a vote.. UAL has more votes than anyone they could possibly hook up with, especially with f/as... other depts i would think so as well.. This company would stay union i would think..

 

[zethya]

Adding CLT and focus cities really appears to add little more. Delta's international structure appears to offer far more latin destinations than US.....

Here is the appropriate US Map for comparison:

http://www.airlineroutemaps.com/USA/US_Air...rica_West.shtml

 

[JungleClone]

isthisok,

Don't worry. UA's greedy management team is only concerned with a big, phat payday off the backs of the employees who've sacrificed for the last 7 years. They have no interest in sticking around and actually running an airline, as evidenced by their continued desperate attempts to sell or merge UA to anyone with a pulse.