What lies beneath the big merger

With two of the biggest carriers based in the United States announcing an official merger proposition which would create the biggest airline not only in the US but the world, the last year’s speculative chatter has made even the skeptics sit up ad pay attention. The merger still has a few hurdles to jump before its implementation can become a reality, but with an official announcement from Delta and Northwest saying the proposition was on the table means that if the boxes are checked and the deal is given the go-ahead, the Air France-KLM merger will son be dwarfed in global aviation significance.

So how- or more directly- how will passengers benefit from such a move? Many experts say: not much. The merger will certainly allow the two airlines to clean up a few loose ends they had lying around and claim it in the name of the merger, and with another massive airline being formed and low-costers going bust at the mercy of high fuel prices, the dystopian aviation monopoly seems one major step closer to reality. The next few weeks will be tell-tale, as this summer shapes up to be another stinker as far as air travel is concerned.