Are the chaps looking into purchasing the scandis? Rumors are floating around... Will ze germans say nein and pull out or is a bidding war in the making?

If they do get bought, prepare for the worst shitstorm in aviation as they try to make a merged senioritylist :p

Isn´t buying and merging two different things? I don´t believe BA (if there is any truth to this) have any intention integrating SAS into BA.

LH bought Swiss, don´t think the lists have merged.

Agreewith Fatman here. Merging 2 different companies and company cultures would be hell, but buying a company (with aircraft, staff, ground equip etc) is merely a change in ownership and shouldn`t affect seniority lists. Just look at SAS and Spanair. SAS owns Spanair, but I don`t think they have a common list. :E

Merging 2 different companies and company cultures would be hell,

Huh? Didn't mighty SAS with their astronaut testing buy Linjeflyg, absorbing the flunkies that did not pass the SAS astrotest? Then merging the SAS Commuter list, absorbing more un-washed flunkies. then uh, the BU folks.:(

The cultures and the personalities of the perfect airline be damned if the bean-counters sniffs a dime.
Perhaps only Lufthansa subscribes to the purity law these days. ?

Cathay Pacific swore up and down a few years ago that they would never fly a twin engine airplane across the ocean or employ a chinaman in the cockpit.
Guess what..?

Things change for sure TD;) Next thing, in an effort to try to save fuel costs, might be shutting down 2 engines on a 4 engine jet when within driftdown range:ugh: Of course I`m kidding, but stupid times means stupid measures:yuk: