Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.30.08 | 11:33 AM ET
That would be Delta Air Lines, now that the Justice Department has approved its purchase of Northwest. For those keeping score, American Airlines was the largest before the Delta-Northwest deal was approved yesterday.
Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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Ling 10.30.08 | 12:46 PM ET
In the long run, this is going to create problems. Customer satisfaction will likely go down for the combined entity, and there’s bound to be some downsizing of the routes that NorthWest operates. Not to mention lay-offs and other employee issues.
Jack from eyeflare travel tips 10.30.08 | 2:19 PM ET
This can only mean that flights will become more expensive. I’ve no idea how the Justice Dept approved this - isn’t the idea to keep up a high level of competition?