US Airways, American to Meet Tuesday
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whatkindoffreshhell
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This link does not work just like the Unique Corporate Transaction.
Funny I just clicked on it and it works just fine
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203897404578079033959686290.html
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=us+airways+and+american+to+meet&oq=us+airways+and+american+to+meet&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j43i400.423.10764.0.10958.59.20.6.25.3.3.383.2934.8j6j5j1.20.0...0.0...1ac.1.SZhqeg6RCxc
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203897404578079033959686290.html
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=us+airways+and+american+to+meet&oq=us+airways+and+american+to+meet&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j43i400.423.10764.0.10958.59.20.6.25.3.3.383.2934.8j6j5j1.20.0...0.0...1ac.1.SZhqeg6RCxc
jimntx
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I had the same problem when I clicked directly on the wsj link. The page would not complete loading as if there were some huge module--like one of those popup ads that has motion in it. However, if I went to your google link first and then clicked on the same wsj link, it loaded just fine??????
Click on the google link
https://www.google.c...c.1.SZhqeg6RCxc
Then click the first link and it will come up.
https://www.google.c...c.1.SZhqeg6RCxc
Then click the first link and it will come up.
How do Roach and Buffenbarger feel about the potential of a merger? Opportunity to organize the AA folks? How are the section 6 negotiations going?
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Get lost Joshie......No soup for you!!!!!!
firedougparker
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And by "cost savings" they mean layoffs and hub closures.
Adios to PHX if this merger goes through.
Adios to PHX if this merger goes through.
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luvn737s
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Yeah, let's get back to the fortresses that made USAirways great - uh, I mean if you don't count the bankruptcies and downsizing. I'm sure the concessionaires in MCI will love to hear that US is going to try to fly a full schedule coast to coast on the 321's. There ought to be 10 or so a day coming through for tech stops.
They won't be closing JFK, I'm sure, so how secure do you feel about PHL? Don't be.
They won't be closing JFK, I'm sure, so how secure do you feel about PHL? Don't be.
I've posted it before, but I think that PHL would be spared significant downsizing if US and AA merge. JFK is capacity-controlled, so unless US-AA also buys B6, there won't be enough slots available during the prime afternoon/evening for all of PHL's European schedule. My guess is that JFK would continue to feature enough flights to feed the Europe, S America and Asia schedule and PHL would continue to see European flights as well. And maybe a flight or two to S America and/or Asia if there's significant O&D from PHL to those regions. If AA and US merge, the combined airline will be the largest in the world and could certainly serve both NYC (largest international O&D market) plus PHL (about the 5th largest metro area in the US). Perhaps not every flight would remain at both airports and perhaps some flights would switch gateways, but I think both would remain.
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luvn737s
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I believe PHX is the 5th largest and PHL the 6th.
JFK slots can go away if the politicians want them to. JFK is not nearly as busy at it was at the height of TWA's operations there. You can't have one domestic and one international hub within 100 miles of each other, the hub economies go in the tank. CLT does a decent job of handling both but PHL is horrible.
I would also agree that PHX and LAX might have some difficulty coexisting but I doubt LAX has the excess capacity to absorb a significant portion of the throughput of PHX. The stickler is that DFW does.
JFK slots can go away if the politicians want them to. JFK is not nearly as busy at it was at the height of TWA's operations there. You can't have one domestic and one international hub within 100 miles of each other, the hub economies go in the tank. CLT does a decent job of handling both but PHL is horrible.
I would also agree that PHX and LAX might have some difficulty coexisting but I doubt LAX has the excess capacity to absorb a significant portion of the throughput of PHX. The stickler is that DFW does.
Actually Airport Catchment Area relates to MSA, not the limited city population itself. PHL's catchment (MSA) is 6th (recently slightly overtaken by 5th place IAH). PHX is 14.
The only politicians that can make the "JFK slots go(ing) away" is the U.S. Congress and that has about as much a chance of happening as a re-regulation of the airline industry. Unless AA/US can profitably fly internationally out of JFK at hours NOT between about 1800 and 2100, there are NO slots available. 82 Operations/Hour at JFK and that's it. Plus, JFK has more annual congestion and weather related delays than PHL AA/US will possibly fly mostly international O&D out of JFK and route connecting international traffic + region O&D via PHL. Since JFK/LGA/EWR/PHL are all within the largest megalopolis in North America and all are controlled out of NY Center, I really doubt airport proximity is an issue at all. PHL just figuratively becomes the 3rd NYC international airport.
You can't be serious about CLT. CLT is a TINY international gateway, including its facilities, compared to PHL. More than 70% of its passenger traffic is connecting. The only international benefit that CLT offers is its location away from the congested NE Air Corridor. I can just imagine how CLT would handle 25 international flight arrivals in a daily 3-4 hour period - they have problems now with more than 3 or 4 an hour.
