The Merger Between United and Continental Airline

1. What did the union do to prepare for negotiations? What additional sources of information might it have used? What were the union's primary objectives?

The merger is expected to take a total of 5 years with an end result of a fleet of nearly one thousand planes covering more than 150 cities in United States with connecting flights to more than 30 countries around the world. All evidence indicates that a merger between Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airlines can be completed within 5 years and will be successful in helping the merged company become the industry leader in low-cost, high customer service airline carriers in North America. The minor obstacles such as redundant cities, a balloon payment owed by JetBlue, redundant Point of Sales Systems and baggage tracking systems, and a surplus of employees, is negligible and easily resolved during the 5-year merge period. A few decisions will still need to be made such as what to do about employee contracts being different between the two carriers and pension plans but the merger is being given a good to very good rating for its chances to succeed as

Delta airline uses merger so as to be able to expend its business. In 2008 the company merged with Northwest airlines. It operates in Europe, North America and Asia/Pacific regions. Once the merger was complete, Northwest Airlines and all its constituents become wholly-owned by Delta Airlines. The merger saw to it that Delta Airlines started operating in the Northwest for FY 2008. In the period of two month that is from October of 2008 the time the merger was completed to December of 2008, the company had increased it revenues to $2 billion. Having a flexible nature, allows Delta to improve customer services, and in the long run be able to achieve its strategic objectives.

Two of the largest competing airlines in America may seem to have a lot in common to a consumer’s eye: big commercial planes, friendly staff, one free carry-on bag, complimentary snacks. Maybe the biggest comparison of them all is how much of the airline market these two companies take up. But for every similarity, there must be a difference. Beyond contrasting ticket prices, there are many fronts on which to compare Southwest Airlines and American Airlines. To begin when the companies began, American Airlines was established approximately 40 years sooner than Southwest Airlines as a result of a merger. In terms of people, Southwest Airlines currently has just about half the number of employees that American does. However, to truly compare the two companies, the organization itself must be researched and analyzed. Southwest Airlines and American Airlines appear to be very different to this day in terms of organizational culture, team dynamics, and conflict and negotiation.

Northern Airlines merged with Southeast Airlines to create the fourth largest U.S. carrier in which it inherited both an aging fleet of Boeing 727-300 aircraft and Stephen Ruth.

United Airlines and Continental Airlines, two major airlines companies, agreed to a merger that would create the world’s largest airline. Such important deal has a lot of problems to be dealt with, from technical, for example how to put the companies databases together, to more fundamental, like how the company should be ruled.

Airline travel is arguably safer than that of car travel, with not only less risk for in motion issues and collisions of any sort, but not issues about missing the turn off. Airline travel issues do not usually persist during travel, yet can sometimes happen before the take-off even begins. The issue with Airline travel is not travel hazards, but instead travel protocols often carried out by the airline companies. United Airlines specifically has gone through too many CEO switches and un-transparent business ethics leading to customer complaints and needs to reevaluate business ethics.

A merger is a partial or total combination of two separate business firms and forming of a new one. There are predominantly two kinds of mergers: partial and complete. Partial merger usually involves the combination of joint ventures and inter-corporate stock purchases. Complete mergers are results in blending of identities and the creation of a single succeeding firm. (Hicks, 2012, p 491). Mergers in the healthcare sector, particularly horizontal hospital mergers wherein two or more hospitals merge into a single corporation, are increasing both in frequency and importance. (Gaughan, 2002). This paper is an attempt to study the impact of the merger of two competing healthcare organization and will also attempt to propose appropriate

Decreased online reservation can be a problem: customers like me prefer to purchase ticket via travel agencies to have different options and better deals compare to going directly to an airline website to purchase ticket. Another problem will be how will a loyal customer that earned points/rewards on Expedia or Priceline use the points on Southwest website after the merger? This can be an issue because travel agencies websites offers rewards programs that let you earned points as a frequent flyer and the points can be used for future purchases. In addition, Southwest offers only one option of seating while tickets bought on third party websites have the options of choosing seat like first- class, business class and economy class. That can be an issue for major business travelers who prefer spacious seating, luxury and privacy. After the merging, managers should continue to use travel agency websites in order to boost sales and keep up with competition. Also, managers should to encourage customers to sign up for rewards offer by signing up for a credit card, as it’s a good marketing strategy. Managers should cut down cost by not having to customize AirTran flights and the options of first-class and economy seating should still be offered.

The merger between American Airlines and U.S. Airways is one that can be explained using static game theory models. The two players in the game would be American Airlines and U.S. Airways. Each one of the players would have something to gain from the merger, but they would also have something to lose. In this game American Airlines is our first player. American Airlines’ potential payoff is merging with a company that is maximizing profits, but is also lacking in the customer service department. U.S. Airways is player two, and in this game they are merging with a business that is suffering from chapter 11 bankruptcy, but is excelling in customer service.

The system of governance at United Airlines is a straightforward Bureaucratic control. At the core of their governance are principles that are the foundation for investor and shareholder respect and trust. The principles that are practiced are essential to the reputation of United as a whole and are solely focused on organizational excellence, effective operational performance, and above all, integrity. The Board of Directors and the management teams at United Airlines work collaboratively under this corporate governance and guidelines, and include the policies

bankruptcy protection bigger and better than ever. It also solidified American Airlines as the largest airline in the world. This merger has become to cornerstone of American Airlines affecting all areas of the organization both internal and external.

5. How does the merger between Delta and Virgin Airlines impact the company as a whole? (Outside research required).

Through similar mergers in the 1980s and 1990s, Delta extended its reach into trans-continental and international markets (Rivkin 7-8). According to its stated position today,

American Airlines Group Inc. (AA) is the largest airline in the world. They seek to be an effectiveness organization that have better customer service, effective staff, and successful. In the following, the five stages of Organization Development process will use to implement the organizational development change process for the new “American Airlines Group Inc.”: