...If we are going to talk about stupid mergers, let's talk about the elimination of PSA (and for that matter, AirCal)....... And don't get me started on Piedmont! Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA --- damiross2@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > In my opinion, the Republic/Northwest merger should > not have occured because it > made MSP basically a one-airline town. Same thing > with Ozark/TWA and St. Louis. > > Delta/Western was a good merger, even though I hated > seeing the name of Western > leave the airline scene. Western's and Delta's > route systems, for the most > part, complimented each other. > > The merger of Pan Am and National cold have been a > good merger except for the > stupidity of Pan Am's management. They were able to > get more aircraft at what > was basically a bargain basement price. Instead of > keeping National's routes > intact, they should have acted rapidly to get rid of > the shorter routes (NA had > whole lot of them!) and redeploy the aircraft to > better feed Pan Am's > international services. > > David R > http://home.attbi.com/~damiross > > John, > > Why would you say the mergers should not have been > approved? > > Al > > > > > From: John Kurtzke [mailto:kurtzke@xxxxxx] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:25 PM > > > Subject: Re: Re-regulate Again > > > > > > > > > I too believe in freemarket economoics; however, > I also believe in > > > enforcing anti-trust legislation. Under both > Democratic & Republican > > > administrations, the Department of Justice > allowed some mergers to go > > > forward which should have been stopped. > (Republic-Northwest, > > > Delta-Western, US Air-Piedmont, to name a few.) > > > > > > john kurtzke > > > > > > kurtzke@xxxxxx > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com