{"id":520612,"date":"2010-04-08T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dennis-gartman-weighs-in-on-the-possible-us-airwaysunited-airlines-merger-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:13:00","slug":"gartman-united-and-us-airways-would-combine-the-two-worst-airlines-with-the-surliest-employees-and-the-worst-customer-service-ual-lcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520612","title":{"rendered":"Gartman: United And US Airways Would Combine The Two Worst Airlines, With The Surliest Employees, And The Worst Customer Service (UAL, LCC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b473d070000000000009d34-304-228\/united-airlines.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"united airlines\" width=\"304\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best responde to the news that United Airlines and US Airways may merge goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dennis-gartman\">Dennis Gartman<\/a> who throws a roundhouse punch at the two legacy carriers.<\/p>\n<p>A few choice comments include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These are the two <em>worst<\/em> airlines in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Their services are <em>uniquely bad<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Their employees are uniquely <em>surly<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Their on-time and baggage services grades <em>appalling.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Their customer services reps <em>uncommonly unhelpful<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gartman knows this because he&#8217;s flown both airlines many a time and if we can recall, has voiced his opinion about airlines in previous editions of The Gartman Letter. <\/p>\n<p>As he says &#8220;&#8230;last night when we were on Fast Money from NY, &#8216;Two bad airlines are potentially merging to form one even worse airline! Count us out.&#8217; We stand by that statement: two wrongs do not make a right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dennis-gartman-weighs-in-on-the-possible-us-airwaysunited-airlines-merger-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/0rod2iwb33s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best responde to the news that United Airlines and US Airways may merge goes to Dennis Gartman who throws a roundhouse punch at the two legacy carriers. A few choice comments include: These are the two worst airlines in the world. Their services are uniquely bad. Their employees are uniquely surly. Their on-time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}