Merger to cause doubling of airfares

The State ^ | 5/1/2010

[dWeasel]

Continental-United merger may send fares soaring Expert calls marriage 'almost all bad' for consumers' Houston Chronicle

Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/05/01/1267380/continental-united-merger-may.html#ixzz0miip9993

[dWeasel]

Airfares to DOUBLE ! Can anyone say anti-trust?

[omega4179]

They can charge whatever they want. What are you a DU plant?

[KevinDavis]

Fine, I won’t fly United..

[cardinal4]

Why would a good airline, Continental, get in bed with a really bad airline, United?

[eclecticEel]

I’ve always been happy with Continental. If the merger goes well then it should open a whole bevy of new flight options; I’m looking forward to it.

[B4Ranch]

They’ve had too many planes parked for too long and they are a whisper away from bankruptcy. All of them are hurting.

[cardinal4]

The merger will kill a few commuter contracts..

[B4Ranch]

Definitely will.

[okie01]

Why would a good airline, Continental, get in bed with a really bad airline, United?

It's a merger; just like a marriage.

Continental is playing the part of the wife, who believes she can fix her new husband.

[KevinDavis]

Well I’m happy with American Airlines and they will get my business.. I flew United one time and I was not happy (well I was sitting next to a drunk)...

[VRWC For Truth]

Too big to fail.

[medscribe]

I’m perfectly happy with Virgin America and plan to keep flying on it as much as possible. I swore off both United and American Airlines a LONG time ago.

[biff]

Don’t like the prices? Don’t fly, they will starve.

[Gapplega]

Good, I won’t have to put up with all the riff-raff. Triple it!

[Larry Lucido]

Can anyone say ZOT?

[montanajoe]

Continental and Northwest were my favorite airlines to fly to Asia. The merger with Delta ruined NWA for me and it looks like United till kill what used to be a pleasant experience on Continental.

I really want to fly US carriers but its getting harder and harder..its to bad mergers of US carriers make the survivor worse than the prior parts.

[sionnsar]

Airfares to DOUBLE ! Can anyone say anti-trust?

Yu signed up today to post this???

Welcome to Free Republic.

And I'd be happy to have CO-UA double their fares -- it would make it much easier for me to book my preferred airline(s).

Will they charge carry-on baggage fees too? And install pay toilets? Oh, and if you want anything other than water (still, room temp), you're gonna pay...

[sionnsar]

Why would a good airline, Continental, get in bed with a really bad airline, United?

Says everything about the "good" airline. I used to like Continental. A lot. But after it got in bed with United, well, I avoid it now. Who know what diseases it's carrying?

[sionnsar]

I swore off both United and American Airlines a LONG time ago.

I swore off them both with my first flights in the 60s. Was forced this decade to fly them both again. United: a wee bit better, American... no.

But please don't take my word for it and patronize them instead. *\;-)