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Old Jul 16, 2017, 10:41 am
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Originally Posted by CDKing
The FA rumor mill over at B6 is they are going to announce merge with UA

However, there is also allegedly a hiring freeze on pilots and flight attendants and suspension of schedule FA classes. With the diminished AA partnership could this spell a possible AS merge attempt with B6? Makes sense to combine the best east coast and west coast carriers.
Trying to do another merger when you are barely into your current merger is a recipe for disaster, aside from the fact that AS just wrote a check for 2.6 billion. So I call BS.
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