After the merger, all growth at AWA stopped.
Gee. Ya think. Overnight their route structure tripled and they suddenly had Int'l routes. What else do you think they could handle?
And AWA would have been out of business because they were relatively regionalized?........That's purely speculation on your part.
Actually it is historical fact, as evidence of the few articles published at the time (that you didn't address). If you feel I posted the reports in error...please feel free to post links to the contrary. There was a article written a few years ago that plainly stated (by an AWE VP) that without the "merger" neither company would have survived.
Had you flown on USAir for the 3 years preceding the merger? They had become the consistently WORST airline in the industry.
I have flown USAir since they 1989 iteration. For the last 10 years I have flown them approx 50 flts/yr. I am quite familiar.
I concede that USAir was a bigger company but what does that have to do with financial health?
I said nothing about the financial health. The point is that AWE pilots now have access to airplanes and routes that they would have never gotten otherwise. As a matter of fact, the last few flights I have had on historical US-E routes, were flown by AWE crews/aircraft (Quite uncomfortable seats and no power ports on their Airbus'...:banghead: )
But you can't pidgeonhole America West as a small Western regional airline without implying Southwest is the same. They seem to be doing fine, but perhaps you believe yourself to be a better judge.
I never claimed it was a regionalized airline. I said their callsign represented a regional symbol. Southwest isn't using a regionalized icon as their callsign either.
Evidently, you know absolutely nothing about this so called "merger". If you have no affiliation, why do you care anyway? I think there is more that you're not sharing.
I know quite a lot about this "merger." And the US/PI merger also.
So why do I care? Because so many people are boo hooing for AWE and claiming falsely that AWE BOUGHT USair. People seem to forget that AWE was in bad shape itself prior to the
merger. Both sides brought something to the table, but -E brought twice as much.
I have asked this before. Suppose you are a 15 year pilot with DAL/UAL etc and one day they merge with PSA. After the merger 5 year PSA Capts are given seats in DAL/UAL B777s, PSA crews/planes start flying DAL/UAL routes, and 8 year DAL/UAL FOs are furloughed to keep 2nd year PSA FOs employed.
Would you still feel the same way?