Originally Posted by
LifeNtheFstLne
I'm not trying to stir the pot, nor would I wish any misfortune for my buds at UAL, but I certainly can see our leadership just biding their time to see who bleeds to death first. I'm not sure why I keep hearing rumors of AA and CAL picking up pieces of UAL on the auction block, but they must come from somewhere.
Ah yes, the UAL fragmentation rumors are back. That didn't take long. Chip Munn wrote about this many times on USAviation.com and how USAirways was going to get a bunch of pieces of UAL back in 03/04/05. He even had a couple of them called 'UCT' and 'ICT.' I forgot what the U and I stood for; they were his vision of Corporate Transactions where USAirways got the bulk of United and AMR getting the Pacific routes.
Where, pray tell, would AMR and CAL get the money to pay for the pieces of UAL? If it's on the auction block, you'd be bidding against every airline out there.
It's extremely premature to be discussing the fragmentation of United.