Hey L-CAL guys, the L-UAL guys are absolutely correct!

Listen to the wisdom they bestow upon us.

The orders at CAL meant nothing without United and actually, as a matter of fact, the delays to the Boeing 787 weren't due to manufacturing and design flaws, they were delayed waiting for CAL to merge with United, otherwise CAL would have no place to fly, just big airplanes with all the routes in the world clean and dried up.

Without UAL, all those orders at CAL would be delivered and immediately parked on the ramp waiting for a big bad JUMBO airline to merge with us so we'd have somewhere to fly. Without a big jumbo airline, an airline can't grow; that's impossible!

I guess CAL had no chance at new routes anywhere or expansion in order to compete with the other legacy carriers out there. Our CEO said that the merger was absolutely necessary, and I'm pretty sure he gave up a whole lot of his pay and benefits just to ensure the survivability of both airlines.

This is why SWA, JetBlue, Alaska and Spirit have all gone bankrupt in the last few years. All the flying was eaten up by big mother United and there was none left.

It's a good thing United bought CAL when they did, because, even though USAir, who was doing worse than CAL prior to the merger, is making record profits, there was no possibility whatsoever that CAL could have made it on it's own. Just because CAL was the only legacy to make a profit since the industry crashed after 9/11 doesn't mean that they had a good business model.

Oh, and another point, UAL was "right sized" for the merger. It doesn't matter that UAL was 30% bigger than CAL, it's normal for the big company to change their operations to conform to those of the little company when a merger occurs when the big company is healthy. I'm sure if T-mobile had been allowed to merge with AT&T a few years ago, T-mobile's management would have taken over to make sure AT&T knew what they were doing. That was the plan, right?

I feel nauseous...