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US Airways, America West agree to merge
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| May 19, 2005
| JACQUES BILLEAUD and MATT BARAKAT
Posted on 05/19/2005 5:05:24 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:05:25 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone; Aeronaut
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:07:52 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
("Next week........" Senate Majority Leader Frist)
To: Dog Gone
Bad airline + bad airline = Worse airline.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:07:56 PM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: Pikamax
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:09:23 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: Pikamax
Inneresting ... and how will this affect my mother's retiree travel benefits? I'll have to call her!
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:10:26 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I'm a shallow, demagoguic sectarian because it's easier than working for a living.)
To: Dog Gone
Wonder if this means that UselessAir will fly out of SJC again.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:10:56 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(™ © ® and Patent Pending)
To: Pikamax
UseLess Airways merges with America's Worst
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:10:56 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(A marriage made in the heavens...)
To: Dog Gone
The airline industry is beset with fixed costs as well as inefficiencies. They can't raise ticket prices so they have to reduce costs elsewhere. Jet Blue and South West can charge low prices because they don't have an inefficient business model and they skimp on amenities.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:13:08 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:13:16 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Fly-by-nights)
To: Pikamax
Bad airline + bad airline = Worse airline. I must've gotten lucky. At least the one time I flew US Air.
Last year I flew them to Grand Cayman (from Phoenix), round trip. The service...check in/out, coming back through customs, everything....was excellent.
Can't say the same for America WORST.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:13:28 PM PDT
by
kstewskis
("Lord, let me not be deceived..." ks)
To: Pikamax
Bad airline + bad airline = Worse airline.Absolutely, and I don't know if they make an airline worse than America West. I still have horrible memories from the 80's of that airline.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:18:21 PM PDT
by
saminfl
To: saminfl
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:20:40 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Pikamax
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:20:56 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: mikrofon
Yippy Skippy
Possible ad Slogans
"Now you can lose your baggage in Philly, Pittsburgh, and Phoenix."
"East meets west and screws everything up in between:
"Philly courtesy and LA style punctuality"
What's the over/under on this future "paragon of quality service" ahem cough cough filing for chapter 11?
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:22:52 PM PDT
by
slapshot
("USAF- when you absolutely, positively need it delivered on target, on time, right away")
To: Dog Gone
The Sept 11, 2004 terrorist attacks?
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:23:48 PM PDT
by
Lesforlife
("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
To: Dog Gone
These dinosaur airlines owe so much to suppliers, associates,and pensions, that they are beyond broke yet can still squeeze them for enough scratch to pay off politicians. They are a dire threat. The military should temporarily keep them flying while the routes are auctioned off to sucessful businesses like Southwest.
To: Dog Gone
I rather like the current version of America West. I'm afraid all of those bitter US Airways people who have been bumped to the bottom of the seniority list are going to come in and screw up America West's turnaround.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:25:46 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: Pikamax
Bad airline + bad airline = Worse airline. US (sc)AIR was originally a conglomeration of bad or failing Airlines. Most noteably Eastern Airlines.
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posted on
05/19/2005 5:26:33 PM PDT
by
IamConservative
(To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
To: Dog Gone
The combined company, which will operate under the name US Airways, will be funded by $1.5 billion in new capital from a variety of investors,
Jeez, did some board member from Pets.com just wake up from a six-year coma? Who would throw their money down this toilet?
including aircraft maker Airbus.
OHHHHHhhhh.
To: IamConservative
Eastern Airlines was bought by Continental. USAirways bought out every other regional airline on the east coast.
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