CynicalResAgent
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Um, who else uses IAE engines in their buses? B6?
Could there be a merger coming?
Could there be a merger coming?
US Chooses IAE Engines for New Airbus Narrowbodies
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Here is their customer list, however it doesn't break down which planes and which engines. Customer List.
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I've just had a funny feeling that one of the next airlines to merge will be a LCC and not a traditional Hub and spoke carrier.
It makes me wonder if US might be looking at B6. They compete mostly in the east coast. US could eliminate some competition and get a nice brand new terminal in JFK. Could US do that and then move the majority of trans atlantic ops to JFK and keep PHL as a domestic/caribbean hub with a two or three TA flights say maybe to LHR and FRA or MUC to feed the *A? the pilot integration would be a simple, I dno't think they have a union. Their res is partly done by agents who work at home and I think they only have one call center SLC or RNO or something like that.....so very little ancilary infrastructure to absorb like lots of call centers and hangers. And they are loosing their top people recently so not a lot of golden parachutes to pay out.
I've not heard any rumors and this is all speculation but isn't that what this board is for?
It makes me wonder if US might be looking at B6. They compete mostly in the east coast. US could eliminate some competition and get a nice brand new terminal in JFK. Could US do that and then move the majority of trans atlantic ops to JFK and keep PHL as a domestic/caribbean hub with a two or three TA flights say maybe to LHR and FRA or MUC to feed the *A? the pilot integration would be a simple, I dno't think they have a union. Their res is partly done by agents who work at home and I think they only have one call center SLC or RNO or something like that.....so very little ancilary infrastructure to absorb like lots of call centers and hangers. And they are loosing their top people recently so not a lot of golden parachutes to pay out.
I've not heard any rumors and this is all speculation but isn't that what this board is for?
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Yeah, except for those profitable quarters that the old USAirways couldn't seem to figure out.
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Can you save this kind of talk for a different thread?!
Can you not add fuel to a fire that was started....IN A TOTALLY UNRELATED THREAD!!! Seriously, save it for a thread. Not every thread needs to turn into this East vs. West bullsh*t
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Exactly...the I AM MANAGEMENT BROTHEL wishes for the East versus West bulls**t to continue so the I AM MANAGEMENT BROTHEL can continue to perform highway robberies and skyway hold ups with dues paying members...
Once again...just stating the opinions 😉
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IMHO, a merger with JetBlue doesn't make a whole lot of sense. (Of course, if it indeed makes little sense, it probably will happen.)
While JetBlue does have a nice facility at JFK, I doubt that moving international operations there would make any sense at all. Right now, AAA has a huge advantage in PHL because it has virtually no competition on most of its transatlantic, Caribbean and Latin American routes. Due to the huge amount of domestic feed and the geographic catchment area, PHL works really well. In order to do the same thing at JFK, there would have to be equivalent feed from all the cities now feeding PHL (which means moving almost the entire hub to JFK where the FAA is already starting to talk slot-limits.)
Also, JFK would have competing flights from foreign and domestic carriers to almost every destination that AAA now serves from PHL as a near monopoly. The competition would turn our golden goose into a scrawny chicken overnight.
Additionally, I am not certain that the JetBlue terminal is an "international" terminal. Even if it is, can the international arrivals hall in that building handle the number of flights we now have arriving in PHL? We saw what happened in FLL when we tried to do an international hub there with that arrivals hall way to small to handle the load. It was not a pretty picture and it was daily pandemonium.
JetBlue's new terminal will not have FIS facilities; as far as I'm aware, they will continue to use Terminal 4 for international arrivals. What's an even bigger concern is that a combined carrier would probably be forced to cede some number of gates and/or slots between LGA and JFK, given the market positions of US and B6 at the two airports, respectively. (IMO, this would probably be true in the event of a DL-B6 merger as well.)
Even more to the point, I doubt that Tempe gets why the JetBlue product works in the markets where they're successful.
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hmmmmmmm.......... that is interesting. I've thought that that combo makes sense.
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