AC making last-minute offer to avert CP bankruptcy
 

Seems AC has made a last minute offer to pay secured creditors 97 cents on the $ (up from 0.93) and unsecureds 0.14 (up from 0.12) in order to prevent the debtholders from preventing AC from reorganising.

I don't know what the assets of CP are worth to AC if they can get the creditors to agree but the tax carry forwards must be worth at least C$350mm.

Personally I hope the creditors stand tough.
http://www.canoe.ca/BizTicker/CANOE-...ines-Debt.html

To what end? If the carriers stand tough, AC can simply wash their hands of the whole business.

Nobody can move fast enough to pick up the pieces, leaving AC an open playing field, cherry picking employees, routes, and equipment as they like. If you think the merger is bad on consumers and employees what do you think liquidation of CP would be like?

Debt holders in CP knew exactly what they were getting into. Investment always carries with it risk.

National/Financial Post reporting from the Cdn bankruptcy court in calgary that AC bailed Cdn out prior to Christmas, fearing chaos and backlash over the holiday period if the carrier went under. (This was prior to closing of share purchase offer which would happen only in January.)

AC was fully booked over the period and would be unable to handle tens of thousands of travellers booked on Cdn if it shut down before year-end. News stories had so crippled Cdn, that new bookings were off seriously in the final quarter (substantiated by recently released Cdn quarterly report) but obligations to booked passengers remained high.

AC's Robert Peterson (CFO) said the carrier arranged to buy Cdn's YYZ-TKO routes for $25m and came up with another $20m a few weeks later in exchange for aircraft leases and a flight simulator. This led to suspension of payment to its creditors by Cdn, according to the report.