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I really dislike flying SWA
Flying SWA back in the days of plastic boarding cards was a pretty miserable experience. On-line check-in improved things quite a bit. Since November 2007, the new boarding by number has eliminated all but about 2 minutes of standing in line at the gate.
Southwest now has the best boarding process in the industry. No kidding. If you haven't tried SWA since November 2007, you may not know what you're missing.
OTOH, if you believe that SWA's award redemption is outstanding, that information is also out of date. SWA has capacity controls that have become extremely tight this summer. It's no longer head and shoulders above AA and UA, for example. I'm hoping for improvement this fall.
Thursday's announcement marked the latest in a series of cargo shipping settlements over the last two years. Earlier, British Airways, Korean Air, Qantas and Japan Airlines filed similar agreements as part of the investigation.
In all, airlines have agreed to pay $1.2 billion in fines -- what O'Connor called "the highest total amount of fines ever imposed in a criminal antitrust investigation."
The investigation is continuing.
Who will be next?
Too bad management of Enron, Countryside, Bear Stearns, "no bid, billion dollar fraud" KBR, Blackwater, etc. etc. etc. for the most part won't be nailed for their economy-destroying crimes.
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Pays to have friends in high places in the U S of A I guess.
Clearly this is not limited to the US. See here, for instance.
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Once you start throwing in connections, things get really interesting. By my count, to get to London, you could still choose from (at least) BA, AA, CO, UA, DL/NW, US, LH, AC, SK, some combination with VS, and perhaps even NZ. All would be relatively realistic options. Even if we assume that all of the alliance-level JVs come to pass, you are still looking at something like BA/AA, DL/NW, UA/CO/LH/SK, US, VS, and NZ. Six options still seems pretty healthy to me.
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Hey everyone I was wondering if the NWA and Delta merger is still happening if it is happening than would anyone know when the merger is completed. I was just wondering too what happens when two arlines merge together.
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ummmm... you might want to ask "your dad"... he posted last on this in a current merger thread, so I'm moving it there...
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Hey everyone I was wondering if the NWA and Delta merger is still happening if it is happening than would anyone know when the merger is completed. I was just wondering too what happens when two arlines merge together.
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It has to have regulatory approval. I have no idea where they are on that. I heard on the radio that they hope the deal is done by year end. That's just the legal side. Once the merger is done from a legal perspective, it has to be done from an operational perspective. So, my guess they will start putting the parts together in 2009. The real question from my perspective is when they will merge the FF programs.
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Since I have 1 share of NWA and 1 share of Delta, does that give me 2 "NO" votes
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The shareholder approval date has been set for September 25. If cleared by both groups, then what is left to do in the merger?
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The shareholder approval date has been set for September 25. If cleared by both groups, then what is left to do in the merger?
Have all the labor and vendor issues been cleared up? How about the Congressional hearings - I'd think the Reps of Minnesota, Michigan and Tennessee have a vested interest in ensuring a good portion of the NW employee based isn't summarily laid off post-merger, right before the election.
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Have all the labor and vendor issues been cleared up? How about the Congressional hearings - I'd think the Reps of Minnesota, Michigan and Tennessee have a vested interest in ensuring a good portion of the NW employee based isn't summarily laid off post-merger, right before the election.
I might be wrong, but the Congressional hearings (which are over, I believe) don't actually have any authority. They can blather all they want and hope that it influences the DOJ decision, but Congress has no role in making sure jobs are kept.
I might be wrong, but the Congressional hearings (which are over, I believe) don't actually have any authority. They can blather all they want and hope that it influences the DOJ decision, but Congress has no role in making sure jobs are kept.
I might be wrong, but the Congressional hearings (which are over, I believe) don't actually have any authority. They can blather all they want and hope that it influences the DOJ decision, but Congress has no role in making sure jobs are kept.
I welcome being corrected, though.
With enough backing within, Congress could pass legislation and/or use leverage over the budget process to get in the way of this "merger" and/or in "making sure jobs are kept". That said, I don't think Congress is really unified enough on such a matter for it to exercise its powers effectively to such end as blocking the "merger" under the current circumstances.
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With enough backing within, Congress could pass legislation and/or use leverage over the budget process to get in the way of this "merger" and/or in "making sure jobs are kept". That said, I don't think Congress is really unified enough on such a matter for it to exercise its powers effectively to such end as blocking the "merger" under the current circumstances.
Agreed on all counts. I also don't think there's enough Congressional will to postpone DOJ action until a new administration takes office.
The shareholder approval date has been set for September 25. If cleared by both groups, then what is left to do in the merger?
The announcement made on Friday is for the Delta shareholders to meet on 9/25 to vote on giving Delta's board the authority to approve a merger without each shareholder voting. In essence, they're voting to give the Delta board proxy to their votes.
If they approve giving the Delta board proxy control (which they almost certainly will do), it will allow Delta to approve the merger within hours (or minutes) of DoJ approval. That's all this vote does. The DoJ decision could still take until Nov/Dec. or later to be delivered.
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