Originally Posted by
Lerxst
You conveniently left out the two failed merger attempts with USair, the second of which died on May 30, 2008 - a mere 5 days before Tilton announced parking the 6 747's and 94 737's.
And you forgot the part that
required UAL to go through the merger discussion motions with USAir as part of the domestic Star agreement.
It's good thing that CAL was ready and able to step up for the "virtual merger" just mere days after the USAir announcement and the announcement of the aircraft groundings. So quick, in fact, that it almost seems like it had been in the oven for a while....hmm......
I never liked Tilton but I never doubted that he had a plan.
