Would a United-Continental merger pass muster?
As part of Merger Mania 2008, United and Continental are now in talks to merge. United has been eager to merge with someone — anyone — for a few years now, but Continental has been reluctant to do so,...
View ArticleOberstar on mergers: “Hell no!”
In a BusinessWeek op-ed, House Transportation Committee chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) has come out firmly against airline mergers involving the big six. Yet this latest round of rumored mergers,...
View ArticlePension protection debate holds up FAA bill
The House’s version of the FAA reauthorization bill has been on the Senate floor for the past few weeks, but it’s currently stalled (although scheduled for a cloture vote today, May 6, which if passed...
View ArticleContinental’s Kellner (and US’s Parker) revisit reregulation
TEMPE — US Airways’ media day program is about to begin, but I wanted to share this non-US related interview by Loren Steffy from the Houston Chronicle: Larry Kellner served me a cup of coffee with the...
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