All those good things that CP was doing to it's customers, could it be that they were #2, and struggling to survive ?

You're nuts (What kind of drug are you on) if you think an AMR controlled monopoly airline would treat you differently than what AC would do now. This is why a monopoly airline is so valuable, they can screw the consumers.

And with regards to "pissed off" CP employees, by all accounts, they are happy to join "Air Monopoly". The only pissed off people near CP are their VFF.

Let's drop this Onex<->Canada bull. It was quoted few years ago that Onex publicly said "We're an US company that happens to based in Canada", or something to that effect. As far as Onex "building" better companies, you're just reading the takeover PR way too seriously. If this was the truth, institutional AC shareholders, which are all very intelligent people, would have backed the Onex bid. Their lack of support, and their comment on how Onex planned to own Air Monopoly by just putting up < $250 million of their own money "Was just not right".

If Onex really wanted to build a better company, and be the saint that they projected themselves to be, they would have purchased CP on their own and "serve" the consumers by competing vs. AC. That didn't happen, did it ?