Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Depends on how you view the financials, USAIR made I think 650 million last year on about a third of the total revenue Delta has. We made about 1 billion. AMR has been making a operating profit and starting this year will see significant reduction in employee costs. Delta is going to see a increase. The combination of USAIR and AMR will be a powerful airline.
I'm not so sure how powerful.... they pretty much just overlap each other, and all the strong points that are brought in are AMR's network. USair contributes very little to the merger network wise- they bring in a mgmt team that actually wants to run an airline.