Kirby pitches UA merger with AA (link)
 

Kirby Pitches Merger w AA

Pretty scarce on details but interesting nonetheless.

sounds like maybe start off with something wild like this so a JB Merger doesn’t sound so crazy to DOJ. Either way both sound terrible for anyone at UAL hired post ‘Rona

2,100 mainline and 1,000 regional aircraft with 40% US market share and 35,000 pilots. That's one way to get the AA pilots back into ALPA.

If memory serves correct, wasn’t that merger floated during our bankruptcy with Airtran or MidEx taking over a sizable portion of the ORD operation divestiture?

Cue Kirby's talking points about why mergers are hard and destructive. Why would anyone sign up for AA's labor mess?
This has to be some ruse to make whatever he really wants to do seem minor.

Please take the 320s and the flight attendants. You can have all the northeast. Ps have to take isom too. Make him station manager in Guam

we don’t need 75 year old DFW Debbie

Or CLT parking lot Patty

Denver had one also in 2019 where they had to add the metering frequency