Originally Posted by
Pkcola
It's possible Jeff choose major system and procedures of the smaller carrier because it was what he knew and understood. The net result of not taking the larger carriers infrastructure was the inability of the smaller carriers infrastructure to handle the size of the merged airline. With the 12,000 plus pilots and 700 plus airplanes, we still stumble on a daily basis. Delta and American have mostly completed most of their integration and guess how they did it.
I don't disagree with you, but American hasn't come close to completing their merger integration. In fact, they're just starting. The big stuff like the reservation system won't be merged until 2015.
Unless you're talking about the TWA merger. That's done.