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Topics => Economy => Topic started by: Libertas on February 14, 2013, 07:20:10 AM

Title: American gets bigger
Post by: Libertas on February 14, 2013, 07:20:10 AM

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-sources-american-airlines-us-004018969.html (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-sources-american-airlines-us-004018969.html)

Bullish for higher prices, the economy will be booming soon!

Title: Re: American gets bigger
Post by: RickZ on February 14, 2013, 07:56:42 AM

I still miss Piedmont Airlines (taken over by US Airways back in the mid 1980s).

Title: Re: American gets bigger
Post by: Libertas on February 14, 2013, 11:34:46 AM

Midway, Republic, Western, all gone.

Check out this list -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States)

That's a lot of consolidation and elimination!

Title: Re: American gets bigger
Post by: Pandora on February 14, 2013, 12:26:16 PM

Quote from: Libertas on February 14, 2013, 11:34:46 AM

Midway, Republic, Western, all gone.

Check out this list -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States)

That's a lot of consolidation and elimination!

Well, can't have all that competition out there.

I still have a very old Pan Am sweatshirt.

Title: Re: American gets bigger
Post by: Libertas on February 14, 2013, 01:20:26 PM

Quote from: Pandora on February 14, 2013, 12:26:16 PM

Quote from: Libertas on February 14, 2013, 11:34:46 AM

Midway, Republic, Western, all gone.

Check out this list -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States)

That's a lot of consolidation and elimination!

Well, can't have all that competition out there.

I still have a very old Pan Am sweatshirt.

Channeling that old dufus Earnest Hollings..."thare's too much compah-tee-shone ought thayah"!