Originally Posted by
satpak77
in most business mergers (not airlines per se...), a reduction of employees is necessary due to overlapping / duplication of efforts across the new company.
NOW, how this will play out at AA/USAir is anyone's guess
Yep, thousands of furloughs due to the 12 (yes, I said 12) overlapping routes. Geeze, we must fly 150 flights a day on each of those routes...... Lots of duplication there.
Run for the hills, it's the end of the world if this merger goes through.....