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Did UAL's billion-dollar drop affect banking?

anildash — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:33:02 -0800

Did the United stock drop have any catalyzing effect on other recent collapses? Obviously, big banks fail because of years of mismanagement, and the credit crunch has an order of magnitude more impact than a single day's blip in even a large company like UAL. But I'm curious if anybody with relevant financial knowledge can identify any connections between the blip caused by the resurfacing of the old Sun-Sentinel UAL bankruptcy story and any of the larger institutions that went from teetering to collapse recently.

Tenuous connections welcome! :)

Which is better, $250, 20% off, or 10,000 miles?

gilgamix — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:18:22 -0800

My girlfriend and I had a really bad flight and United's customer appreciation website gives us three choices: $250 dollars off a domestic flight (50 states, PR, Virgin Islands), 20% off an international flight (I'm assuming at full published rate) or 10,000 miles. What should we do?

AirplaneWorkersOnStrikeFilter

philulrich — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:56:43 -0800

A friend of mine is flying on Delta soon and wants to know: if they strike, will another airline honor her ticket? My friend lives in North Carolina and will be going home soon to Kentucky. She writes:

"Delta was the only airline that could get me home next weekend that was under $300, I had no choice. My flight in is on United, so I have no problem getting there but I might be stuck in Kentucky. It was ridiculous, *all* the other flights coming back here that day were expensive, WAY more than usual."

So basically: if Delta strikes, will she have to end up shelling out again for a more expensive ticket to get back to North Carolina?