The directors of Delta and Northwest approved a deal for the companies to merge and create the world’s largest airline, and, inevitably, the world’s largest bankruptcy filing…
I’d think Brendan, liking ND, would want this horror-show of an airline to have as different of a name as possible. United Customer Losing Airways, perhaps?
I am not looking forward to this. Northwest already had a virtual monopoly on my flights, but at least theirs seemed to be a better-run monopoly than Delta’s on those of my brother. Nothing like the combination of monopoly power and incompetence to make the customer happy…
The greatest travesty of this is that the Northwest name will go away. In other words the movie title “North by Northwest” will become utter nonsense. This is the greatest thing to impact movies since Pan Am went away in the 90s, meaning it wasn’t really the official airline of space stations in “2001.”
April 14th, 2008 at 8:41:20 pm
ALL UR TRAVEL DELAYS R BELONG 2 US.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:25:27 pm
I can’t wait for the craptastic service and unaffordable rates that this merger will provide. I think in MBA-speak it’s called “synergy.”
April 14th, 2008 at 9:37:40 pm
Detest Airlines
April 14th, 2008 at 9:50:05 pm
Heh. I like it.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:59:03 pm
Surely, Brendan, you are campaigning to have it called ND Airlines ?
April 14th, 2008 at 11:06:59 pm
Hrmmm . . . I was always hoping that Northwest and Southwest would merge, forming West airlines.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:57:46 am
The directors of Delta and Northwest approved a deal for the companies to merge and create the world’s largest airline, and, inevitably, the world’s largest bankruptcy filing…
April 15th, 2008 at 3:29:31 am
I’d think Brendan, liking ND, would want this horror-show of an airline to have as different of a name as possible. United Customer Losing Airways, perhaps?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:00:25 am
this is actually a good thing and will likely save the average person money in a few years. its a bad thing for employees of these two airlines.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:27:48 am
I am not looking forward to this. Northwest already had a virtual monopoly on my flights, but at least theirs seemed to be a better-run monopoly than Delta’s on those of my brother. Nothing like the combination of monopoly power and incompetence to make the customer happy…
April 15th, 2008 at 9:40:15 am
The greatest travesty of this is that the Northwest name will go away. In other words the movie title “North by Northwest” will become utter nonsense. This is the greatest thing to impact movies since Pan Am went away in the 90s, meaning it wasn’t really the official airline of space stations in “2001.”
April 15th, 2008 at 11:03:55 am
WTF????