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coop77 04-30-2008 07:57 PM

Which combo would create the largest airline?
 
With all the mergers reportedly on the horizon, which combination would become the new #1 in terms of size?

Roper92 05-01-2008 04:58 AM

American and United

rickair7777 05-01-2008 05:55 AM

AA and anybody I think.

fdxmd11fo 05-01-2008 07:11 AM

A better question is, which combo would be able to make money?

coop77 05-01-2008 07:39 AM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 377181)
AA and anybody I think.

United/USAir, or Delta/NWA? Who will be BIGGER, and who is likely to make more money?

Spaceman Spliff 05-01-2008 08:13 AM


Originally Posted by coop77 (Post 377271)
United/USAir, or Delta/NWA? Who will be BIGGER....

that's the second time in this thread you've asked that question...what's with the size fixation? :rolleyes:

Does it really matter? And if it does, are you asking about size in terms of... employees? passengers carried? number of airplanes? operating revenue? bags of peanuts? :confused:

Lifeisgood 05-01-2008 08:23 AM

DAL + NWA + Air France/KLM. AF is eyeballing Alitalia or whatever MIGHT (hopefuly not) be left of them in the future.

As far as only US airlines combo you got to look ahead too and see how much they'd overlap and downsize. Which with our pilot brains is hard to do.

Trogdor 05-02-2008 12:28 PM

After the probable downsizing, it is anyone's guess.

Short Final 05-02-2008 05:54 PM

I'd have to agree with rickair7777.

American and anyone else. Who makes the most money? That's anyones guess. Now where's my crystal ball?



SF

newKnow 05-02-2008 10:24 PM

Right now Delta is bigger than United and US Air is a little bigger than NWA. So, you would have to say US Air/UAL would be bigger.


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