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Jan30
United Lacks Heart/Structure to Exit Bankruptcy
I reported earlier whether United will make a successful bid at exiting bankruptcy and staying out of it.  I also commented on their business plan.  If you wanted a more in-depth anaylasis  take a look at Joe Brancateilli's post on the situation over at United. 

He has some pretty good points.  He goes on to say...

"United Airlines will fail again primarily because it has no organizational heart, no identity and no definable brand. Most of all, it has none of the vision and discipline that separates the winners from the losers in the deregulated skies." 

He also goes on to say, "United will emerge from the most costly bankruptcy in American history with 26 separate in-flight seat configurations. It dabbles in everything from the upmarket p.s. service to the downmarket Ted. It slaps its name and logo on five types of narrow-body planes, four types of widebody jets and eight flavors of regional aircraft. It befuddles buyers with an ever-shifting combination of one, two, three and even four classes of in-flight service. And like all of the Big Six, its rococo fare structure is repulsive." 

But one of thing things he writes about scares me quite a bit. 

"United is mortgaged to the hilt. United made public relations hay this week with its announcement that it quickly secured $3 billion in exit financing. What it didn't mention was that the loan was secured with just about every asset that United owns: fleet; spare parts; Atlantic and Pacific routes; corporate headquarters building; flight simulators; accounts receivable; and even the Mileage Plus frequent-flier program."

Take a look at Joe's column over at USAtoday



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