Possible Merger - NWA & Delta?
Dec 8, 2006, 5:09 pm
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Northwest Airlines plans to hire a set of bankers to examine "strategic alternatives", increasing speculation that the airline might attempt to mount a competing bid for Delta Air Lines.
Dec 8, 2006, 6:42 pm
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With all due respect to all the NW employees posting on FT, but unfortunately, 2 negatives don't make a positive in the aviation industry.
Dec 8, 2006, 6:59 pm
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If NWA really wanted to go the merger route, it can take CO with far less trouble than anyone else.
Dec 9, 2006, 11:19 am
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The FT had some coverage of this
Fairly in-depth, actually. I read it aboard NW 9 NRT-CAN.
Oh, and that's Financial Times, not FlyerTalk. Gotta be specific about which FT!
It'd make for an interesting merger, but I'm not sure whether it'd make sense to have hubs at ATL and MEM and CVG and DTW. Salt Lake would be a nice addition since NW really has nothing in the southwest. But CO's EWR and IAH hubs (and their routes in Latin America, Polynesia and TATL) would be a much more desirable mix IMHO.
Oh, and that's Financial Times, not FlyerTalk. Gotta be specific about which FT!
It'd make for an interesting merger, but I'm not sure whether it'd make sense to have hubs at ATL and MEM and CVG and DTW. Salt Lake would be a nice addition since NW really has nothing in the southwest. But CO's EWR and IAH hubs (and their routes in Latin America, Polynesia and TATL) would be a much more desirable mix IMHO.
Dec 9, 2006, 11:49 am
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Fairly in-depth, actually. I read it aboard NW 9 NRT-CAN.
Oh, and that's Financial Times, not FlyerTalk. Gotta be specific about which FT!
It'd make for an interesting merger, but I'm not sure whether it'd make sense to have hubs at ATL and MEM and CVG and DTW. Salt Lake would be a nice addition since NW really has nothing in the southwest. But CO's EWR and IAH hubs (and their routes in Latin America, Polynesia and TATL) would be a much more desirable mix IMHO.
Oh, and that's Financial Times, not FlyerTalk. Gotta be specific about which FT!
It'd make for an interesting merger, but I'm not sure whether it'd make sense to have hubs at ATL and MEM and CVG and DTW. Salt Lake would be a nice addition since NW really has nothing in the southwest. But CO's EWR and IAH hubs (and their routes in Latin America, Polynesia and TATL) would be a much more desirable mix IMHO.
It's actually MICROnesia (Guam et al), not polynesia (Tahiti). CO dropped Tahiti when they discontinued Asutralia service in the 90s
Dec 9, 2006, 12:08 pm
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Dec 9, 2006, 12:29 pm
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I think a DL/NW merger will have some serious regulatory problems. Can you imagine a combination of NW, DL, AF, and KL? Under one agreement you would have a little less than half of the US to pacific business and the majority of the transatlantic market. The pricing power of that entity would be amazing.
Dec 9, 2006, 2:03 pm
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CO's Europe routes from EWR would be a wonderful boon, not to mention all those BF-configured 772s, 764s, 762s, and 752s. But with CO operating those routes and A/C already, it would make a lot more financial sense to simply code-share. (Besides, there's almost no fleet commonality between NW and CO.) NW's strength has long been the upper Midwest and Asia. If they can grow their Asia services and perhaps expand their East Coast presence - BOS seems to be slowly becoming a "focus city" - they'll be in a stronger position without sharing DL's over-expansion growing pains.
Dec 9, 2006, 3:06 pm
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I would look for NW to do something out west in the next 12-18 months, or as soon as they start to get a decent number of their new EMBs and CRJs in operation.
Dec 9, 2006, 3:31 pm
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(Admittedly, I now live in ITO and many eastbound trips start for me with a westbound hop to HNL.)
Dec 9, 2006, 7:46 pm
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I am for this merger. Think this opens up a great deat of possibilities for me and they places I travel.
rather see a CO NW merger but that seems quite unlikely...
rather see a CO NW merger but that seems quite unlikely...
Dec 9, 2006, 8:50 pm
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