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Old Aug 10, 2012 | 8:19 pm
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Originally Posted by channa
That doesn't prove much of anything. CO was a different animal pre-merger, and SHARES issues and limitations are likely more prevalent in the larger, combined carrier with a more complicated route network and more complicated transactions.

A small business may be able to get away using QuickBooks, but QuickBooks will quickly break under a larger organization.
CO was not particularly "small". Keep in mind that UA was the airline that coughed up the ability to serve NRT and LHR from NYC, not CO.

What we know now is that the combined airline is faceplanting.
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