It is highly likely to be April 2012.
Yes.They are going to merge because they Continental already made a deal with UNITED to merge.
Continental Airlines were created on 1934 in Boise, Idaho,USA. Flights begin on July 15, 1934, where the first plane from Continental Airlines flew. However on March 3, 2012, Continental Airlines joined with United Airlines.
Continental Airlines merged with United Airlines. The merger was complete on March 3, 2012. The new company retained the United Airlines name, but still flies planes with the Continental logo.
No. Delta merged with Northwest, which freed up Northwest's golden shares in Continental, giving Continental the opportunity to merge with United. As far as frequent flyer miles go, Delta is part of SkyTeam and United is part of Star Alliance.
The holding company for the new entity will be named United Continental Holdings, Inc. and the name of the airline will be United Airlines. The marketing brand will be a combination of the brands of both companies. Aircraft will have the Continental livery, logo and colors with the United name, and the announcement campaign slogan will be "Let's Fly Together." The new company's corporate and operational headquarters will be in Chicago and it will maintain a significant presence in Houston, which will be the combined company's largest hub.
US Airways and United Airlines were planning a merger, but the deal was never completed. The airlines called off the merger after the Justice Department threatened to sue to have he merger blocked. The Justice Department said that the merger would be bad for the industry by hampering competition.
Most of the work, aircraft painting, employee uniforms, merging the Frequent Flyer programs, merging lounges will be done in 2011. The formal certificate to operate as one airline is expected early 2012.
Companies often merge due to reasons such as cost savings, some examples of this are: The recent merger of Continental Airlines and United Airlines to create United-Continental which is predicted to bring savings to the companies of $1 billion and will create a company with a combined revenue of $29 billion. Other major mergers include: Time Warner/AOL, Daimler Benz/Chrysler, Exxon-ExxonMobile. There is a huge number and they constantly occur but this answer should give you a few.
It would have to be delta because they go everywhere but once united and continental merge they will but until then delta is
US Airways exists but is about to merge with American Airlines. If this is not the answer then there is not enough information to answer the question, because there are many US airlines.
No. They are still very much separate airlines. They have not merged. They, and several other airlines, do have limited partnerships, including Codeshare agreements, Frequent Flier mutual agreements for accrual and redemption of miles, Joint-Business Agreements, and mutual Alliances. In the case of AA and IB, all of these are true.
The Nextel Sprint merger was completed in August 2005.