Originally Posted by
wilp888
I think the 99 million figure indicates how much credibility this rumor has.
When you read that, did anyone else have a vision of Tilton doing the Dr. Evil pinky move saying "Ninety-nine million dollars!".
But seriously, I think it's safe to say the merger is dead. There's a lot of headaches involved with a merger and not one single airline merger has gone well in far as I can remember.
Just imagining the attempted merging of the two cultures gives me the chills. The corporate culture of the two are drastically different and would require a lot of growing pains, which no one can really afford in today's environment. The NW/DL merger is going to be bad for a while and anyone who says it won't hasn't paid attention to US/HP and AA/TW as two recent examples.