“It’s not so much engineering. It’s bringing together all the pieces. The IT [information technology

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Asked if he would pursue a merger if he were still running American, Crandall said, "It's hard to say. It'd depend on what the pilots decide to do. The key issue, the pilots have to agree on a seniority integration scheme. The two sides at US Airways, the two airlines that came together [America West and US Airways in 2005], those pilots have still not agreed on a seniority integration. paul mccartney concert tour dates You can't successfully do a merger unless that's done."
"It's not so much engineering. It's bringing together all the pieces. The IT [information technology] is different, the culture is different, the processes are different, so they're very hard to do. Continental-United, for example, paul mccartney concert tour dates is still struggling with that," Crandall said.
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Winston said the motivation for many airline mergers is to gain access to international routes, which would help US Airways in this case, and in dealing with a failing firm, one that's in trouble and is looking for a partner to help it out of bankruptcy.
"But with American coming out of bankruptcy and presumably doing so with better and lower labor costs, I think they really got to think twice about whether they really have an interest in pursuing this merger," Winston said.
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