Each mega merger effectively grants near monopoly at many airports and for many routes.

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The Japanese mega-merger plan is almost as vague as its yet-to-be hatched German counterpart.

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There is no reason to believe that the New York City mega-merger will be much different.

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His earlier two attempts to pull off a mega-merger with South African telecom firm MTN collapsed after months of negotiations.

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The outcome might have been different had talks remained secret until all the details were worked out, but once the world knew a mega-merger was in the works, the stakeholder governments dug in their heels and that was that.

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The company is simply generating too much cash and unless they are going to do a large merger, initiate a mega-stock buyback, or bail out a European country or two, there is nothing else for them to do with that much cash.

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