Categories: Mergers

Delta’s Flight Attendant Question

Posted by: Justin Bachman on November 25

If you thought Delta’s (DAL) integration of Northwest had been progressing mighty swimmingly, the first major post-closing hitch just arose. The union that represents Northwest’s 8,000 flight attendants has sued…

Delta, Let’s See Those Merger Benefits

Posted by: Justin Bachman on October 30

To the surprise of no one, antitrust regulators did not object to Delta Air Lines’ (DAL) purchase of Northwest (NWA), a deal that closed mere hours after the Justice Dept….

A Parisian Romance

Posted by: Justin Bachman on July 02

Another premium-class airline is tossing in the towel, in this case via a sale. Less than two weeks after its first flight, British Airways’ new Open Skies airline said today…

Foreign ownership of airlines?

Posted by: Dean Foust on May 13

Reuters has a story based on a speech by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Transportation Affairs John Byerly (right), who says that the U.S. will propose relaxing global…

My 2 cents on airline mergers

Posted by: Dean Foust on April 28

Yeah, I’m alive, though you wouldn’t know it from my lack of posts over the past few weeks. On vacation, on the road, on assignment (including this story that ran…

Delta-Northwest=DNA? Or DOA?

Posted by: Dean Foust on March 19

I wrote a story for BW.com on the news that the Delta pilots told management they couldn’t reach an agreement with their counterparts at Northwest to merge seniority lists…

Will European airlines buy into U.S. carriers?

Posted by: Dean Foust on February 20

I wrote a story in the current print edition of BusinessWeek on the issue of airline consolidation, but with a different twist: The story looks at consolidation in the context…

Delta-Northwest Turbulence?

Posted by: Dean Foust on January 28

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported over the weekend that the merger talks between Delta and Northwest had hit a snag over — what else? — the roles of the CEOs of…