Originally Posted by
DCBob
Complete nonsense. About as likely as DL buying UA.

Attempts were made that had US being worked into a combination with UA during the Clinton Administration. "DC Air" was to be the carve out given to an area business big whig as a way to try to get it approved by the Clinton DoJ. Now US-AA may make more sense as a pursuit than even that aborted combination from two Administrations back.
I doubt that Oneworld is going to die anytime soon, much as I doubt that US is going to be around Star Alliance for another decade.