Additional areas of expertise include organizational transformation, post-merger integration, and leadership development.
Meanwhile, a small group of pilots has publicly raised objections to a merger, largely by suggesting that American pilots would lose seniority in a post-merger integration with US Airways.
At the least, Boeing is confronting post-merger integration head-on.
While it is not necessary for the merger to move forward, approval of the MOU helps to clear the path to labor integration should a merger to occur.
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In a recently released video, former AMR CEO Bob Crandall said pilots need to protect their seniority by negotiating a seniority integration agreement before a merger occurs.
The scale of the venture signals many of the same integration challenges that apparently dog the merger between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, for instance.
In 2007, following the merger of US Airways and America West Airlines, the integration of the carriers' reservation systems caused the airline's check-in kiosks to crash across the country.
Morgan Stanley entered a joint venture agreement with Citi to acquire the Smith Barney unit and the merger has had plenty of bumps including longer than expected technology integration.
The shake-up follows a three-month probe by Barclaycard into the integration of ShopSmart, which even before April's merger claimed to be the UK's leading internet shopping gateway, with more than 500, 000 visitors each month.
Seniority integration, which represents a still-unresolved bugaboo following the 2005 merger between US Airways and America West, is the next hurdle for the two United pilot groups.
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Even as the integration process is proceeding well, we expect temporary business impact from this large-scale merger but we are optimistic that the second half of 2013 will see more revenue growth momentum and cost synergies.
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Verizon has been very successful dealing with the integration challenges of past mergers, and the fact that the company posts stronger EBITDA margins than equally merger-happy SBC bodes well for this coupling, he says.
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