Originally Posted by Hedley

United is currently starting large weekly classes, hiring continues, and the majority of the aircraft are “planned” as growth. Raising fuel prices and weakening demand can always alter those plans, but for right now it’s full speed ahead (either towards success or into a brick wall). I seriously doubt that the Willis Tower crowd is even remotely interested in adding a costly and time consuming merger to the mix, especially one where most of the acquired aircraft would never see conversion or entry into revenue service.