Delta buying into JAL? What will this do for oneworld?
Sep 11, 2009, 5:46 pm
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The airline industry is turning into a high school rumor mill with all this discussion of hookups and breakups. The other rumors from this year alone include:
BA and QF merging
BA and IB merging (at the same time as QF merger rumors)
QF and MH merging
S7 buying MA
LH hooking up with any airline with self-esteem issues.
BA and QF merging
BA and IB merging (at the same time as QF merger rumors)
QF and MH merging
S7 buying MA
LH hooking up with any airline with self-esteem issues.
Sep 11, 2009, 7:38 pm
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The airline industry is turning into a high school rumor mill with all this discussion of hookups and breakups. The other rumors from this year alone include:
BA and QF merging
BA and IB merging (at the same time as QF merger rumors)
QF and MH merging
S7 buying MA
LH hooking up with any airline with self-esteem issues.
BA and QF merging
BA and IB merging (at the same time as QF merger rumors)
QF and MH merging
S7 buying MA
LH hooking up with any airline with self-esteem issues.
In the first two examples alone that you gave, both were publicly announced talks, by both parties involved. They were not kept secret.
Here are just the first articles that I found on each one:
"BA, Qantas merger talks collapse"
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/news...ntas/index.htm
"British Airways and Iberia announce merger plans"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/bu....14867688.html
The fact that neither of those two mergers was/has been consummated, doesn't mean that the attempt to consummate them was a "rumor."
Regards
Sep 11, 2009, 7:39 pm
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My 2 cents ....
DL buys into JL and JL bolts to SkyTeam. Only a question of when, not if.
If AA is then serious about serving Asia (a stretch, I know) they should start service to HKG from JFK, ORD, LAX, DFW and codeshare the heck with CX and KA ex-HKG. Those two serve Asia much better than JL does anyway. AA would offer a lower cost Transpac alternative to CX from LAX and JFK. Maybe AA cuts one of the DFW-NRT flights and finds some more 777s and makes peace with the pilots on rules.
Hey, I can dream.
DL buys into JL and JL bolts to SkyTeam. Only a question of when, not if.
If AA is then serious about serving Asia (a stretch, I know) they should start service to HKG from JFK, ORD, LAX, DFW and codeshare the heck with CX and KA ex-HKG. Those two serve Asia much better than JL does anyway. AA would offer a lower cost Transpac alternative to CX from LAX and JFK. Maybe AA cuts one of the DFW-NRT flights and finds some more 777s and makes peace with the pilots on rules.
Hey, I can dream.
Sep 11, 2009, 7:43 pm
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Regards
Sep 11, 2009, 9:37 pm
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My 2 cents ....
DL buys into JL and JL bolts to SkyTeam. Only a question of when, not if.
If AA is then serious about serving Asia (a stretch, I know) they should start service to HKG from JFK, ORD, LAX, DFW and codeshare the heck with CX and KA ex-HKG. Those two serve Asia much better than JL does anyway. AA would offer a lower cost Transpac alternative to CX from LAX and JFK. Maybe AA cuts one of the DFW-NRT flights and finds some more 777s and makes peace with the pilots on rules.
Hey, I can dream.
DL buys into JL and JL bolts to SkyTeam. Only a question of when, not if.
If AA is then serious about serving Asia (a stretch, I know) they should start service to HKG from JFK, ORD, LAX, DFW and codeshare the heck with CX and KA ex-HKG. Those two serve Asia much better than JL does anyway. AA would offer a lower cost Transpac alternative to CX from LAX and JFK. Maybe AA cuts one of the DFW-NRT flights and finds some more 777s and makes peace with the pilots on rules.
Hey, I can dream.
Sep 12, 2009, 4:05 am
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Sep 12, 2009, 6:18 am
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Sep 12, 2009, 6:29 am
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However, having been a frequently flyer to and through NRT for the past 30 years and seeing it evolve and reading published reports on JL's financial woes and looking at the history of how conjecture in the airline industry will many times become reality, and after putting all the known facts together with "gut feel", my bet there is a 75% chance DL buys into JL and JL goes SkyTeam.
Or..... I could be totally wrong and I continue to collect AA Q-points and miles on AA/JL codeshares.
Sep 12, 2009, 6:37 am
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Sep 12, 2009, 8:25 am
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It's not at all my intent to lecture. I'm genuinely interested in this issue. I was asking what I believe is a fair question. The poster made an assertion; I'm curious if that assertion is based on additional knowledge that some of us might not have or whether it's merely "head nodding" with the news articles as written. The poster certainly doesn't need to answer if he/she doesn't like/agree with my question. Nor in fact do you...
Enjoy your weekend.
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Sep 12, 2009, 9:11 am
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