AA and LCC settled suit
11-12-2013 | 11:05 AM
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The settlement wil result in the new American operating 44 fewer DCA daily departures than the 290 that American and US Airways currently operate. At LGA, 12 fewer daily departures than the approximately 175 collectively operated today.
Included are eight DCA slot pairs that American currently leases to JetBlue and five LGA slot pairs that American leases to Southwest.
Included are eight DCA slot pairs that American currently leases to JetBlue and five LGA slot pairs that American leases to Southwest.
11-12-2013 | 11:12 AM
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Now that the legacies have consolidated to just three, that's it at the legacy level. The DOJ will not allow any combination of Delta/AA/United to merge. Next up will be the LCC/Major level consolidation to ensure long term success. VX has to IPO first and once done I would imagine within 5 years that JetBlue and Virgin America will merge. Maybe call it virginBlue or something. With Frontier's new Indigo owners who are ex-Spirit and with Frontier being turned into a ULCC airline, I would say that Frontier and Spirit will merge. I wouldn't rule out Hawaiina/Alaska either, that could be a merger as well.
11-12-2013 | 11:16 AM
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So with all these divestures of LGA and DCA flying, what does that mean for the combined pilot group of nearly 15,000 pilots? I think the writing is on the wall for the airline being "overstaffed" once the merger is done and the slots divested, despite the retirements (which don't begin in large numbers until 5 years from now).
11-12-2013 | 11:52 AM
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So with all these divestures of LGA and DCA flying, what does that mean for the combined pilot group of nearly 15,000 pilots? I think the writing is on the wall for the airline being "overstaffed" once the merger is done and the slots divested, despite the retirements (which don't begin in large numbers until 5 years from now).
11-12-2013 | 11:58 AM
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According to the ToHo/Parker memo, most of the routes we have to divest will be RJ routes. I've suspected for a while that we were basically just banking some of those slots as bargaining chips, sending RJ's out to who cares destinations. The consolidation might slow hiring somewhat but I'd expect it to continue.
11-12-2013 | 12:02 PM
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RAH's operation will hopefully be downsized as well.
11-12-2013 | 12:35 PM
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So with all these divestures of LGA and DCA flying, what does that mean for the combined pilot group of nearly 15,000 pilots? I think the writing is on the wall for the airline being "overstaffed" once the merger is done and the slots divested, despite the retirements (which don't begin in large numbers until 5 years from now).
11-12-2013 | 12:50 PM
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So with all these divestures of LGA and DCA flying, what does that mean for the combined pilot group of nearly 15,000 pilots? I think the writing is on the wall for the airline being "overstaffed" once the merger is done and the slots divested, despite the retirements (which don't begin in large numbers until 5 years from now).
Worry about your own airline. The writing is on the wall.
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