Where Were You And How Did You First Hear Of The Merger?
May 20, 2005, 2:19 am
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Where Were You And How Did You First Hear Of The Merger?
I woke up inexplicably around 2:00 A.M., and was on the computer. Not on FT though. At 3:17 A.M. received the official company Divident Miles email:
Subject=America West and US Airways to Merge
Signed By=
N. Bruce Ashby
Executive Vice President,
Marketing and Planning
As US emails go, it was not bad, had a lot of details. In some other cases, there emails do not answer very many questions. The theme though of the email was that it was business as usual, and that the merger must be approved before anything happened. They kept repeating that.
So I found out at home from the company on a nearly sleepless night in bean town
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Subject=America West and US Airways to Merge
Signed By=
N. Bruce Ashby
Executive Vice President,
Marketing and Planning
As US emails go, it was not bad, had a lot of details. In some other cases, there emails do not answer very many questions. The theme though of the email was that it was business as usual, and that the merger must be approved before anything happened. They kept repeating that.
So I found out at home from the company on a nearly sleepless night in bean town
.
May 20, 2005, 2:40 am
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I read about the HP-US merger right here on FlyerTalk. You can check the multiple threads to see in which I first posted, a few minutes after reading about it.
May 20, 2005, 7:52 am
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Originally Posted by hscottm
Cant find the exact date with new FT search, but ITRADE nailed the important details a few months ago. Have only heard financing details since then 
May 20, 2005, 4:27 pm
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Original Thread Originators?
Maybe it would be interesting to hear where the people that originated the burst of threads found out? I suppose news though, etc. Any buzz around the US system on this? Anybody find out on a plane, airport, club, etc?
May 20, 2005, 5:56 pm
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I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a day much like any other day. The weather was starting to cool down, which was normal for that time of the year. I was getting ready for school, or rather my mother was getting me ready for school, when we suddenly heard the announcement on the radio.
I didn't really understand what it meant. My mother broke down in tears, crying "No! Not him! He was such a good man!", which was curious in retrospect, her being a Republican and all. My father called home from the office (you had to get to work earlier in those days), having just heard himself, to see how Mom was doing, and he then came straight home from work. I got to stay home from school that day, which I thought was just fine. As I mentioned, I didn't really understand.
Oh, wait -- I was having a flashback to when Kennedy was shot...
I also remember the merger announcement like it was yesterday...
John
I didn't really understand what it meant. My mother broke down in tears, crying "No! Not him! He was such a good man!", which was curious in retrospect, her being a Republican and all. My father called home from the office (you had to get to work earlier in those days), having just heard himself, to see how Mom was doing, and he then came straight home from work. I got to stay home from school that day, which I thought was just fine. As I mentioned, I didn't really understand.
Oh, wait -- I was having a flashback to when Kennedy was shot...
I also remember the merger announcement like it was yesterday...
John
May 20, 2005, 6:08 pm
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Seat 9C Onboard US Airways Flight 59 - BDL-CLT 5/19/05 around the ORF VOR. Those of us in the row were talking about the possibility of the merger, and were talking to the F/A earlier. The captain received the message and told the crew. The F/A from earlier came up and told us it has been announced.
When we got into CLT it was mixed emotions, the young employees were practically dancing in the terminal. The older ones...you could tell they have drank so much Kool-Aid to this point, "they'll belive it when they see it..."
When we got into CLT it was mixed emotions, the young employees were practically dancing in the terminal. The older ones...you could tell they have drank so much Kool-Aid to this point, "they'll belive it when they see it..."
