FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - DOT grants antitrust immunity to Continental
Old Jul 10, 2009 | 11:14 am
  #15  
ContinentalFan
FlyerTalk Evangelist
50 Countries Visited
5M
100 Nights
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Los Angeles, California
Programs: United LT-GS, AA LT-Plat, Hyatt LT-Globalist, Hilton LT-Diamond, Marriott LT-Titanium, Hertz PC
Posts: 15,658
Originally Posted by Lurker1999
5th largest airline? Wasn't CO 4th largest? What's the ordering now?
I guess it depends how you measure size. If you select number of passengers, then Southwest just surpassed American; however, the new Delta is now bigger than LUV. CO is about seventh or eighth. If you base the assessment on equipment or fleet size, which I think is also pretty reasonable, then CO is number six (DL is the largest, then AA followed by Air France/KLM then WN). CAL is certainly the fifth largest in the US; if you look at Air France and KLM as two separate entities, then CAL becomes number five.
ContinentalFan is offline