Originally Posted by
rickair7777
3) Looking at the route structure...Big picture, there is not massive overlap system wide. There is clearly overlap in the east, but there are other carriers in that region to provide the needed competion. There may be a few small markets with significant overlap, but the DOJ is not going to ixnay something this large just because a few small/medium towns will lose a competitor.
My gut feeling is that it has a good chance of happening, but who knows.
I also think this will be bad for comair, and fatal for mesa (
).
Ummm...there is nothing short of massive overlap. In fact the only region where there isn't significant overlap is out west and even there SLC, PHX and LAS are not that far apart. A look at the proposed merged route map underscores my point:
http://www.usairways.com/awa/content.../routemap.aspx