Sprint/T-mobile Merger lead to JB Merger?
07-27-2019, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Snyper00
Could you explain to me how the NY market would pass muster with the DOJ?
The big 4 US pax carriers could each acquire another airline and there would still be more options/competition than in the mobile sector with this merger, which affects more people, 24/7/365, than the airline sector does. The anti-consolidation DOJ argument is dead now. This just gave a new wave of consolidation the green light.
07-27-2019, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by jamesholzhauer
Could you explain to me how the NY cell phone market would pass muster with the DOJ if T-mobile and sprint tried to merge? Oh wait...
The big 4 US pax carriers could each acquire another airline and there would still be more options/competition than in the mobile sector with this merger, which affects more people, 24/7/365, than the airline sector does. The anti-consolidation DOJ argument is dead now. This just gave a new wave of consolidation the green light.
The big 4 US pax carriers could each acquire another airline and there would still be more options/competition than in the mobile sector with this merger, which affects more people, 24/7/365, than the airline sector does. The anti-consolidation DOJ argument is dead now. This just gave a new wave of consolidation the green light.
07-27-2019, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Snyper00
Seems like you’re comparing apples and oranges to me.
Guess time will tell. Not saying it will be UAL or JB or anyone specific, but I’d bet in the next year or so we will see a new wave of consolidation in the airlines.
07-27-2019, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Flyby1206
B6 pilots stapled to the bottom and displaced to GUM 737 FO with 50 year fences for anything else. There. Now we can move on! 
07-27-2019, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jamesholzhauer
Apples, oranges, mobile, pharma, airlines...doesn’t matter the product/sector. What matters is the DOJ allows (or blocks) M&A to ensure (in its opinion) there is adequate competition in that sector so the consumer doesn’t get fleeced, and they just let a bigger industry that affects more people consolidate further than the US airline industry already is. The sector is mostly irrelevant. The new precedent set by allowing consolidation into 3 major cell carriers instead of 4, with minimal divestiture, kills the argument for blocking any airline mergers. The only argument that still exists is that certain markets would have less/no competition, but that doesn’t hold much water because NY will still be served by the big 4, and there are plenty of routes/destinations that exist with no competition as it is. And in the specific case of UAL/JB, there isn’t a whole lot of route overlap anyway (and where there is, there are other players as well), so the argument that it’s taking away competition isn’t that strong.
Guess time will tell. Not saying it will be UAL or JB or anyone specific, but I’d bet in the next year or so we will see a new wave of consolidation in the airlines.
Guess time will tell. Not saying it will be UAL or JB or anyone specific, but I’d bet in the next year or so we will see a new wave of consolidation in the airlines.
02-19-2020, 08:40 AM
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Just saw this: https://newyork.citybizlist.com/arti...d-of-directors
With t-mobile/sprinter merger approved...is change coming?
With t-mobile/sprinter merger approved...is change coming?
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