The combined carrier became one of the East Coast's largest airlines.

United kept the "Economy Plus" seating for the combined carrier after the merger.

She said the combined carriers would "have a strong route structure up and down the East Coast.

Combined carriers are a very small portion of the fleet, representing less than 3% of this capacity.

The combined carrier operated using the Britt Airways operating certificate.

The combined carrier would take the United Airlines name but use Continental's logo and livery.

Although Bell Atlantic's shareholders would own most of the combined carrier, each company would appoint an equal number of directors.

Obstacles to a Deal Against these strategic arguments, a combined carrier would still face the financial and labor difficulties that forced the two to consider a deal.

Moreover, the flurry of mergers has also brought some declines in service, as newly combined carriers tried to merge differing management styles and ways of operating.

US Airways' merger with America West last year, reducing the combined carrier's costs and eliminating unprofitable routes, spurred interest in other combinations.

The combined carrier will be called US Airways and will seek $1.5 billion in capital from investors, including Airbus, the European aircraft maker.

US Airways said the combined carrier would be bigger than the current leader, American Airlines, and would be called Delta Air Lines.

The following month her aircraft participated in a combined carrier airstrike on Darwin, Australia, helping secure the conquest of the Dutch East Indies by Japanese forces.

The merger of the two carriers got off to a rocky start, as PBA flight crews were initially not given their seniority at the combined carrier for the first six months.

It was the largest airline merger in history at the time and it initially caused numerous operational issues which led the combined carrier to have an on-time performance of just 42 percent in its early days.

He said the oldest and most outdated equipment will probably be first to go as the combined carrier streamlines its fleet - in other words, Varig's McDonnell Douglas aircraft and older Boeing jets.

And it announced last week that it had agreed to buy 30 new regional jets, a move that flies in the face of Mr. Parker's plan to cut back the combined carriers under the Delta name.

Merger Seen as a Factor Northwest, a subsidiary of NWA Inc., acquired Republic Airlines in August 1986, and the combined carrier has exhibited the passenger service, maintenance and other short-term inefficiencies often associated with such mergers.

Qantas and Emirates began their historic alliance on Sunday, 31-Mar-2013, in which their combined carriers offer 98 flights per week to Dubai, that saw bookings up six-fold To accommodate Muslim sensitivities, the airline has banned pork from all flights bound to/from Europe, which provoked a backlash on social media.