Originally Posted by CitrusMCO

What will be interesting will be the degree to which NW will have control over YX. Will NW people be placed in upper management at YX? Will YX be slowly dismantled to less of a mainline carrier? And best of all, will Herb Kohl complain about anti-trust concerns, which are very real in this case given the market share NW and YX have at MKE combined, again dependent on the amount of control, if any, NW has over YX's operations, whether day-to-day or strategically over the long-term.

I think the ultimate lose 10 years down the road here will be YX employees and MKE. Midwest Express is done whether it was AirTran or Northwest, but at least AirTran was committed to building MKE further, thus ensuring jobs and n/s flights at low fares. Northwest is committed to neither, especially since they will now have pricing power at MKE. MKE may well become the new CVG.