World’s Largest Airline: Delta and Northwest meger approved

Today (Wednesday October 29th 2008), the Justice Department approved the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines. The merger will be the largest airline in world bringing down American Airlines to the second position.
The combined airline will be called Delta with headquarters at Atlanta and Chief Executive as Richard Anderson.
From CNN Money -
After a [...]

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Merger Update: British Airways and Iberia Airlines in merger talks

+ Higher oil prices have driven airlines to different solutions like capacity reduction, merger related synergies, airfare increase, charging for the usual freebies, etc.
British Airways and Spain’s flag carrier Iberia (or Iberia, Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. ) are deep in merger talks with Iberia “have taken direct/indirect 10% stake in British rival”. [...]

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Merger Update: US Airways and United talk fail again

United Airlines and US Airways are reported to have again failed to reach an agreement. Both the companies have been rumored to be in talks about a possible merger which would help both the companies fight their survivals which has been endangered due to the increase in jet fuel price.
From CNBC article -“

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Merger Update: UAL board to discuss merger on Thursday

With the oil prices breaking records everyday, there is more pressure on airlines to consider mergers, and other capacity cutting measures. Capacity cuts do mean lesser seats available and hence greater leverage in changing ticket costs.
According to MarketWatch -
“the board for United Airlines parent UAL Corp. is expected to meet
Thursday to hear out management on [...]

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Merger Update: Rumors of “US Airways + United” are heating up

Earlier I had blogged on how the merged airlines would look.

Seems like the merger is getting more heat. Currently, there are rumors about -

Headquarter in – Chicago IL (same current United Airlines’ Headquarter)
Management Team – US Airways (with CEO Doug Parker and President Scott Kirby)
Savings of – At least $1.5 billion
Cash Cushion (very important [...]

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Dream Merger: American Airlines and British Airways

When KLM-Air France can merge, then why not American Airlines and British Airways? They already have a great alliance and together can make the biggest airline in world in every respect. Though I think it is nothing more than wishful thinking, since neither a foreign carrier can have 20% or more stake in a US [...]

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Partnership: American Airlines, British Airways and Continental Airlines

There are talks between American Airlines, British Airways and Continental Airlines for a partnership (not to be confused with a merger). If the partnership talks go through, they will all retain their names, headquarters, etc. but will end up with possible ties on – frequent flier program and code sharing. American Airlines and British Airways [...]

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Merger: US Airways + United Airlines?

There is a talk about merger between US Airways and United Airlines. I did a little research (here and here) and found the following –
Red for United and Blue for US Airways

Name – United Airlines (since it is bigger brand name and airline than US Airways)
Based in – Chicago IL, Tempe AZ [...]

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Delta and Northwest: Varied fleet advantageous or disadvantageous

Recently, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines said that “having different fleet allows them to run more efficiently”
There fleet differences (from my earlier post) -Delta – Boeing 737, Boeing 757, Boeing 767, Boeing 777, MD-88, MD-90 Northwest – Airbus A319, Airbus A320, Airbus A330, Boeing 747, Boeing 757, Boeing 787 (in 2009), MD DC-9
Earlier, during [...]

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Northwest and Delta: What about the pilots?

There are a lot of people who make an airline “fly”, but probably the most important ones are the Pilots. No matter how anyone would debate on the the current technology, we all trust our lives to the pilots when we are in an aircraft. There is no airline in the world that can [...]

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