With United and US.Air in bankruptcy and American heading their quicky, that leaves Continental, Delta and Northwest. As the CEO of United stated in court last week, with International Bookings down significantly beacuse of the War with Iraq, the future isn't too promising.
In all likelyhood, if the War continues, we're probably looking at the Big '4' at best. Of course, that should make Chris Gains extremely happy because he can then start pushing for the Big '2'. Needless to say, if he had thought out the repercussions of fewer airlines in terms of ticket costs and schedules he might have engaged the brain first
Newark