Originally Posted by CL65driver
You're right.... and for some reason, they kept the US Airways brand instead of America West. Any HP pilots out there know why they did that?

They did it because US Air has better brand recognition on the east coast, and in the lucrative European market, Cactus had no brand recognition whatsoever. Purely a marketing decision.
A HP / DAL merger seems pretty far-fetched, but when I first heard rumors of the HP / USAir merger I didn't believe that for a second either...oops