24/7 Wall St.
05-28-2008, 07:13 AM
24/7 Wall St. Daily News
Reports are that the heated merger talks between United (UAUA) and US Air (LCC) have gone away. Both airlines are probably still talking to AMR (AMR), Continental (CAL), and any other puddle-jumper with a single-engine plane that they can find. The airline industry got another dose of electric-shock therapy yesterday when JetBlue (JBLU) said it would defer taking delivery of a number of new Airbus jets. If the airline doesn't make it, the delivery could be dodged altogether. Managements at United and US Air have probably decided that thousand of hours talking about mergers will not save them. With oil...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?i=jj5gQH</img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?a=jj5gQH) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?i=kUU6EH</img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?a=kUU6EH) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?i=Fbg4Ph</img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?a=Fbg4Ph)
complete story here... (http://www.247wallst.com/2008/05/us-air-lcc-walk.html)
Reports are that the heated merger talks between United (UAUA) and US Air (LCC) have gone away. Both airlines are probably still talking to AMR (AMR), Continental (CAL), and any other puddle-jumper with a single-engine plane that they can find. The airline industry got another dose of electric-shock therapy yesterday when JetBlue (JBLU) said it would defer taking delivery of a number of new Airbus jets. If the airline doesn't make it, the delivery could be dodged altogether. Managements at United and US Air have probably decided that thousand of hours talking about mergers will not save them. With oil...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?i=jj5gQH</img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?a=jj5gQH) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?i=kUU6EH</img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?a=kUU6EH) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?i=Fbg4Ph</img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/RyNm?a=Fbg4Ph)
complete story here... (http://www.247wallst.com/2008/05/us-air-lcc-walk.html)