Originally Posted by
Vikz09
My thoughts as well. I really don't think there would be any kick back from government officials as there is little overlap. The only real issue would be senators from Montana and Idaho who may complain of a oligopoly in those two states. In fact our combined employee size would still be less than American (I believe)
Think about the new combined american.. a network that is smaller than ours, covers much less of the globe, but with thousands upon thousands more employees than we have... there are A LOT of synergies that are going to be happen there. And neither of them are PBS and are going to PBS. The waist tightening we've felt the past few years is going to be nothing like how hard that belt is going to be pulled over there.