US Airways & Southwest????

**Ari707** · 2008-03-13, 10:15 AM

US Airways-Southwest could
be latest merger sensation

Merger mania is sweeping the airline industry. Every carrier, it seems, is looking for a partner. Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines are talking. So are United Airlines and Continental Airlines.

Could a US Airways-Southwest Airlines merger be on the horizon?

An airline industry expert from Minneapolis thinks so — at least, he thinks a merger of Pittsburgh International Airport’s two busiest carriers looks great on paper.
“That would be one hell of an airline,” said Terry Trippler, of Minneapolis-based Trippler & Associates.
“It wouldn’t surprise me at all. I could definitely see it happening if the other mergers (Delta-Northwest and United-Continental) went through,” Trippler said.
Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times :: Thursday, March 13, 2008

now this is one I don't think I will see ever!!!

**nwafan20** · 2008-03-13, 10:31 AM

Wow, the media needs to stop with these random pairings of airlines.

**T-Bird76** · 2008-03-13, 11:31 AM

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Where did this article come from? The National Enquirer? LOLOLOL

**Matt Molnar** · 2008-03-13, 11:45 AM

The Beaver County Times business and finance pages rank right up there with the Wall Street Journals and the Financial Times of the world. :mrgreen:

**lijk604** · 2008-03-13, 11:57 AM

It would never happen. Goes completely against SWA's business model.
Too many aircraft types, too many overlapping routes.

**PhilDernerJr** · 2008-03-13, 12:03 PM

WN would merge with them....then just throw them out with a final "good riddance". haha

**Ari707** · 2008-03-13, 12:42 PM

and I found this on http://www.justplanenews.com/ which is a US Airways website

**cancidas** · 2008-03-13, 12:58 PM

it would never work. the cultures are too different, and that's only the beginning...

**Matt Molnar** · 2008-03-13, 02:09 PM

2 1/2 years after the America West merger, they still haven't ironed out their pilots union problems. Now imagine them having trash whatever progress they've made on that front and start over, only this time with a completely different union. Yeah, that'll happen.