Originally Posted by
nw320driver
Exactly, It's not hard to see how this would tie in. Two big holding companies, one for Europe (AF & KLM) and one for North America (Delta & NWA), then when the time is right, EU, US laws, administrations, investment banks, unions they could merger. Truly world wide coverage. A side benefit, is they could whipsaw each group against the other, a management dream.
What does NWA CBA have to say about fragmentation? I believe that DAL's doesn't allow for the kind of hookup between AF/KLM. I could be wrong but I'll try to get an answer form the Contract Admin guys.