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Muscle flexing at the rumour mill
The unions are ready for it. The analysts are ready for it. The media and blogosphere are ready for it, but are the airlines ready for consolidation? Rumours of merger, much as Matthew and Mark...
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Is silence golden after all?
Sometimes silence, after all, is golden. The silence coming from Delta Air Lines this weekend, after its merger committee had met to consider possible combinations with United or Northwest, certainly...
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Deal or no deal, Delta duo talk
The two top Delta Air Lines executives, including CEO Richard Anderson (right), broke silence on a possible merger with Northwest Airlines, telling Delta’s employees that the Atlanta-based carrier has...
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San Diego, there they go
Airline Business and the San Diego airport are wrapping up Network2008 out here on the West Coast. Airports and airlines may be worried about mergers and acquisitions, but some airports are pushing...
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No-deal Delta leaves dominoes standing
The apparent collapse of a proposed Delta/Northwest airline merger is likely to leave other possible combinations on the drawing table for some time. A possible Continental tie up with United,...
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Mayrhuber: 2007 will not be a one-hit wonder for Lufthansa
Amid all the current doom and gloom, today’s comment from Lufthansa chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber is interesting: “The record-breaking year 2007 will not be a one-hit wonder.” After annoucing a...
View ArticleIt’s all happening in Europe
Consolidation activity appears to be hotting up in Europe. The latest is that Lufthansa has decided to put its fingers in more pies with a plan to acquire a 45% stake in Brussels Airlines parent SN...
View ArticleWillie has a pop at “oldest rocker in town” Branson
In this column penned for the Daily Mail - but impossible to find on the newspaper’s own trashy website so I’ve linked to it via this site – British Airways boss Willie Walsh explains why consolidation...
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Cathay’s Tyler talks sense
I’m guessing that Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler gave this interview to UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph en route to the latest meeting of the oneworld airline CEOs in Madrid yesterday. In it he talks a...
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BA, Iberia and their airline shopping wishlist
Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, is off in Mumbai celebrating the arrival of BA’s first new aircraft in over a decade. He’s used the trip as a platform to expand on his comments...
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