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EWRflyr
07-23-2012, 06:51 AM
It looks good on paper so everything must be honky-dory. Seriously? We are hardly past "merger disruptions" yet.

United Has Flown Past Merger Disruption: Analysts - TheStreet (http://www.thestreet.com/story/11633215/1/united-has-flown-past-merger-disruption-analysts.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO)

EMBFlyer
07-23-2012, 06:57 AM
I guess you CAN run an airline from some corner office in a skyscraper.
cadetdrivr
07-23-2012, 07:22 AM
An article from Ted Reed (repeat offender management mouthpiece) about how everything is going well is all the proof required that the wheels have come off the bus.

APC225
07-23-2012, 07:38 AM
United Has Flown Past Merger Disruption: Analysts - TheStreet (http://www.thestreet.com/story/11633215/1/united-has-flown-past-merger-disruption-analysts.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO)
"A potential problem for United is labor unrest among its pilots, who said last week that they had voted to authorize a strike. Were the National Mediation Board to release the airline and its pilots from further mediated negotiations, a strike could follow after a 30-day cooling off period.

Although a strike authorization had support from 99% of the pilots who voted, Wolfe Trahan analyst Hunter Keay wrote that he does not believe a strike is likely.

"We view a pilot strike at UAL as a miniscule possibility," Keay wrote. "Since deregulation no pilot group at a domestic airline as large as UAL is now has ever been permitted to (strike)," Keay said.

In 1997, President Clinton sent American pilots back to work after they struck the airline. American accounted for 17% of industry capacity at the time, while United today accounts for 21% of capacity, an indication that a United strike would probably not be permitted, even by a Democratic president. Nevertheless, Keay wrote, "That's not to say the mere concept of (a strike) can't serve as an overhang to the stock. Labor law is complicated, so headlines matter.""
SoCalGuy
07-23-2012, 08:04 AM
Tommy lost me in the first paragraph.....
"But some analysts now believe that United's tough merger transition is behind it."

Wow.
aileronjam
07-23-2012, 09:52 AM
"Since deregulation no pilot group at a domestic airline as large as UAL is now has ever been permitted to (strike)," Keay said.

Um... is he (Keay) sure about that statement?