Successful Transactions Must Include Pilots

Delta-Northwest merger and pilot agreement sets historic precedent

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Delta Airlines

Delta completes deal to acquire Northwest Airlines

MINNEAPOLIS – Delta Air Lines completed its $2.8 billion acquisition of Northwest Airlines on Wednesday, turning two of America's most storied airlines into the world's biggest carrier.

"Another Opportunity For Executives To Stuff Their Pockets"

Machinists respond to DOJ NWA-Delta ruling

WASHINGTON, DC - The general vice president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), Robert Roach, Jr., today issued the following statement in response to the Depar

"Will Benefit US Consumers And Is Not Likely To Substantially Lessen Competition"

Statement from Department of Justice Antitrust Division on decision to close investigation of Delta - Northwest merger

WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division issued the following statement today after the division announced the closing of its investigation of the proposed merger of Delta Air L

Northwest

Northwest profitable with oil at $100 - CEO

Northwest Airlines Corp, which is set to be acquired by Delta Airlines, can be profitable with oil at $100 per barrel, Doug Steenland, the company's chief executive, said on Wednesday.

Delta - Notrhwest Merger

Firms recommend OK of airline merger

MINNEAPOLIS — Four advisory firms are recommending that shareholders approve Delta Air Lines Inc.'s proposed purchase of Eagan-based Northwest Airlines Corp.

Delta Air

Delta taps $1B credit line to smooth Northwest merger

Delta Air Lines Inc., the third-largest U.S. carrier, said it has drawn on a $1 billion revolving credit line to boost its cash holdings as it prepares to acquire Northwest Airlines Corp.

Delta-West or north-delta?

Delta-Northwest pilots approve joint contract

Pilots for Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. Monday approved a joint contract, helping to pave the way toward the airlines' planned merger, the carriers said.

Northwest joins the club

Northwest Airlines adds $80 fuel surcharge

MINNEAPOLIS - Northwest Airlines Corp. confirmed on Thursday that it will add fuel surcharges of up to $80 for many domestic round-trip tickets.

Union Strongly Opposes Delta Northwest Merger

Machinists to defend airline pensions at merger hearing

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers' (IAM) general vice president Robert Roach, Jr.

Northwest-Delta deal goes to trial

Trial set in suit to block Delta-Northwest deal

ATLANTA - A federal judge has set a trial date for a lawsuit by a group of airline passengers that seeks to block Delta Air Lines Inc. from acquiring Northwest Airlines Corp.

Northwest joins the club

Northwest Airlines cutting 2,500 frontline and management jobs

MINNEAPOLIS - Northwest Airlines Corp.

Delta-Northwest Merger

Delta and Northwest try to reassure Congress on merger

WASHINGTON - The chief executives of Delta Air Lines Inc and Northwest Airlines Corp sought to reassure Congress on Thursday that their planned merger would not hurt service, cut jobs, or blunt competition.

Delta-Northwest Merger & US DoJ

US Justice Deparment to look at airline merger

The proposed merger of Northwest and Delta Airlines is to be examined by the US Justice Department to gauge the likely effects on competition.

The department declined to indicate any sort of time frame for its investigation.

The two airlines announced details of their proposed tie-up on Monday. The merger, if it goes ahead, will ... read more

Delta - Northwest Impasse Remains

Delta pilots nix arbitration overture

ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines Inc.'s pilots union rejected Wednesday the idea of submitting to arbitration with its counterpart at Northwest Airlines Corp. to break their impasse over integrating seniority lists as part of a possible combination of the carriers.

"In short, there will be no binding arbitration," Lee Moak, head of Delta's ... read more

Northwest CEO

Oil prices may force airline consolidation

Northwest Airlines Corp. CEO Doug Steenland says high crude oil prices may further encourage consolidation in the airline industry, according to media reports.

MarketWatch reports that Steenland said the looming recession and the fast rise in oil prices make airline consolidation "inevitable," according to a transcript released ... read more

NW - DL Merger Talks

Airlines still trying to land merger deal

Pilots at Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines apparently haven't given up hope for a solution that would reopen merger talks stalled by differences over how to fuse their union seniority lists under a combined carrier.

Delta + Northwest = ?

Airline memos cloud agenda

Divining what the top executives at Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines were signaling by sending out internal memos to employees this week is like figuring out Kremlin politics in the era of the Soviet Union.

At one level the memos were meant to assure their employees that no merger between Delta and Northwest would be completed ... read more

Airline Mergers

Air France-KLM eyes stake in merged Delta-Northwest airline

PARIS - Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM is prepared to make an investment in the entity that would emerge from a merger between Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) and Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWA), a senior official said Thursday.

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US airline deal talk intensifies

Speculation has intensified that Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines are set to merge after a report said they had shared plans with pilots' unions.
The Bloomberg news agency claims that the firms have submitted merger plans to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) for union leaders to study.