It seems that Mr Smisek and his cohorts have really misjudged the outcome of their efforts to CO'ise UA, producing a very strange mongrel which annoys both UA and CO FF'ers.

If he was going to gut UA and make it a virtual clone of the current CO, surely he would have been much better off to take the Delta approach, where one "partner" just gets completely obliterated. In that way, you are only pissing off half of your FF'ers, rather than everyone.

It will surely end in tears (yes, I know, I've said that before).

And, on a slightly related issue, it strikes me that if most UA elites weren't tied to UA though their employment, this whole merger would be dead in the water.

Just a few cents worth form me (who obviously has no idea about anything).