Originally Posted by
fartsarefunny
Back to the original post...American won't merge with anyone...in this country. I think AMR will hope everybody else merges and than they can run to Congress and cry about how big everyone else has become and that they need to loosen foreign ownership rules or AA will disappear.
British Air has want to merge/buy AA for the longest time.
I mostly agree. On the other hand a AMR - ALK merger would put AMR in a close third place behind DAL-NWA. In fact on a ASM and RPM basis a AMR-ALK combo would be almost the same size carrier as a DAL-NWA combo, assuming no overlaps.