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April 25th, 2008, 17:00
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#1 | | Old Skool
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|  American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airways
More merger mania news http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv...30664420080425
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Airlines has had early-stage merger talks with US Airways and is in advanced talks for an alliance with Continental Airlines, sources briefed on the situation said.
American Airlines' talks with Continental are focused on forming an alliance. Meanwhile. Continental is in advanced merger talks with United Airlines.
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April 25th, 2008, 17:11
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
Oh God... that'll surely make all the seniority integration problems at USAir go away!
Of course, from the AA pilots' standpoint, the USAir guys are divided and engrossed enough anyway, and since they aren't ALPA anymore, the ALPA merger policy won't be much of a factor if the AA guys wanted to try to roll over the USAir pilots... | |
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April 25th, 2008, 19:22
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
Actually, the present interest of US Airways in merger is coming from the holding company America West...And the mighty Doug Parker..we wouldn't be gobbled up, we'd be doing the gobbling.
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April 25th, 2008, 20:35
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
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Originally Posted by RightSeatGirl  Actually, the present interest of US Airways in merger is coming from the holding company America West...And the mighty Doug Parker..we wouldn't be gobbled up, we'd be doing the gobbling. | America West, purchasing AA???
Really? 
Talk bout' David & Goliath. | |
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April 25th, 2008, 20:40
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
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Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius America West, purchasing AA???
Really?
Talk bout' David & Goliath. | Why is that a surprise?
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April 25th, 2008, 20:44
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
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Originally Posted by H46Bubba Why is that a surprise? | Why, because you'd easily assume that American, the larger company would on paper be buying it's smaller rival.
I'm sure though, that should they come to a deal, they're doing it simply for legality issues. | |
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April 25th, 2008, 20:46
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
Doug Parker's gone mad with power!
This is just plain insane.
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April 25th, 2008, 21:00
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
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Originally Posted by Firebird2XC Doug Parker's gone mad with power!
This is just plain insane. | Hit Nail Head....
For some mysterious reason...and from some mysterious source...America West Holdings has recently acquired a rather large influx of expansion capitol. And ohhhhhh the merger possibilities are a'comin....
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April 25th, 2008, 21:20
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
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Originally Posted by RightSeatGirl Hit Nail Head....
For some mysterious reason...and from some mysterious source...America West Holdings has recently acquired a rather large influx of expansion capitol. And ohhhhhh the merger possibilities are a'comin.... | I look at what's going on at USAir and I simply cannot imagine AA/AE people taking that lying down. With AMR stock prices at the lowest they've been in quite some time.. well.. who knows.
If it were to come to pass- WHOO doggie.
This could get interesting.
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April 26th, 2008, 00:27
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
I heard USAir/United in a couple news articles today. Specifically that they were "in advanced talks and could announce today."
It's all just hype. The media couldn't analyze the airline business if someone shoved it up their [nose]. But then again, neither could this lowly undergrad student. 
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April 26th, 2008, 00:30
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
In my humble opinion though, consolidation is inevitable. The only thing that could prevent it would be regulation (antitrust concerns).
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April 26th, 2008, 22:21
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
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Originally Posted by RightSeatGirl Hit Nail Head....
For some mysterious reason...and from some mysterious source...America West Holdings has recently acquired a rather large influx of expansion capitol. And ohhhhhh the merger possibilities are a'comin.... | Bingo, just like the AWA and US Air merger, hedge funds brought 99% of the funds, and made out like bandits. Doug has some direct lines to some big hedge fund managers.
The funny thing is, had US Airways bought DAL for what, $9 billion, they would've overpaid significantly based on the current price. | |
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April 26th, 2008, 22:55
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| Re: American Airlines in talks with Continental and US Airwa
There's been seemingly some complimentary regional route reshuffling between USAir and United on the east coast in the last year, BUT it's probably just a coincidence, especially since it's just on the regional affiliate level.
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