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September 27, 2010 Shares Of Southwest Airlines Are Moving Higher On 2.1x Above Send by Comtex Smartrend Shares of Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) are trading up 7.3% to $13.18 today on above average volume. Approximately 9.9 million shares have [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 SOUTHWEST AIRLINES TO ACQUIRE AIRTRAN FOR APPROXIMATELY $1.4 ... Send by BNO News DALLAS/ORLANDO (BNO NEWS) -- Southwest Airlines on early Monday morning announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with AirTran Airways to. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 AirTran Jumps On Southwest?s Premium Buyout Posted by Willian Smith Shares of AirTran Holdings (AAI) are up $2.67, or, 59% above Friday?s close, at $7.24 after Southwest Airllines (LUV) said it would purchase the company for $7.69 per AirTran share, including $3.75 in cash and 0.321 per share worth of Southwest stock. The transaction is worth $3.4 billion at the [.. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Fall Is For Pumpkins, Goblins, Falling Leaves And Community Education Posted by Willian Smith Last week I enrolled and began a class in Inutitive Training. I have always been told I have an intuitive nature and if I would take the time to work on this I could become more adept at this interesting phenomenon. So [...] [...] I decided to take it to the next level and begin a class with a very well kn [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 What Does Southwest Buying Air-Tran Mean For Consumers? - The ... Send by Ben Popken So, what are the consumer repercussions of the surprise acquisition of AirTran by fellow low-fare airline Southwest? Airfarewatchdog's George Hobica is worried that fewer competitors, especially at this price point, will mean that [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Clark Howard ?ecstatic? Southwest Buying AirTran | Atlanta Bargain ... Send by Rana Cash Clark Howard is on cloud nine since learning that Southwest Airlines is buying AirTran. Howard, a consumer advocate and host of his own radio program on AM. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Odds & Ends: Pirates, Marlins, Rangers Posted by Willian Smith Six years ago today, the Rockies signed righty Jhoulys Chacin as an amateur free agent out of Venezuela. This year as a rookie, Chacin has a 3.26 ERA in 132.3 innings. Links for Monday [...] Pirates GM Neal Huntington indicated a preference to sign a free agent pitcher to a multiyear deal, in comments [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Southwest Expands Presence With AirTran Buy Send by news.yahoo.com Southwest Airlines will purchase AirTran Holdings for $1.04 billion in cash and stock in a deal that will allow Southwest to expand its presence in major East Coast markets. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 29, 2010 Southwest Risks Keep-It-Simple Focus To Gain Growth Send by www.businessweek.com Southwest Airlines Co. Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly, taking on his biggest acquisition ever, is dismantling the carrier?s keep-it-simple strategy in a bid to re-ignite growth. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Southwest Airlines Announces Deal To Purchase AirTran Posted by Willian Smith America?s largest low-cost airline company, Southwest Airlines, made an announcement on Monday that it will be purchasing AirTran Holdings in a deal worth $1.42 billion. If the merger is approved by regulators, it would create an airline with a total of 685 aircraft. As reported by Hugo Martin of th [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Southwest To Buy AirTran For $1.04 Billion (Reuters) @ Fbcheat.com Posted by Willian Smith Bangalore (Reuters) ? Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) said it would acquire AirTran Holdings Inc (AAI.N) for about $1.04 billion in cash and stock to beef up its regional and low-fare services. Southwest will buy AirTran for $7.69 a share, [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Deals Of The Day: Southwest To Buy Airtran For $1.4 Billion - Deal ... Send by Stephen Grocer Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Confessions Of A Young Musical Arranger Posted by Willian Smith THE LAZIEST BLOG YOU'LL READ FOR A WHILE - just an extract pulled from my yet-unpublished autobiography, - explaining the pain and hardship of being a BLUFFER. Are we all bluffers? Or just the lucky ones? Now read on [...] One day, as I was riding on a bus in Southampton, I read an ad in Melody Maker. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Stock Picks: DuPont, Hewlett Send by BusinessWeek Southwest Airlines Co.: Standard & Poor's equity analyst Jim Corridore reiterated a buy rating on shares of Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) on Sept. 27. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 Southwest To Buy AirTran For $1.37 Billion Send by dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com Southwest Airlines , the biggest discount airline in the United States, on Monday said it had agreed to acquire AirTran Airways for $1.37 billion in cash and stock. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Service Alert: Gold Line Trains Running Every 20 Minutes Posted by Willian Smith Gold Line Service Alert 9/27/10 Gold Line trains are running every 20 minutes due to technical difficulties with an overhead catenary wire at the Avenue 60 crossing near Highland Park. Metro will be running longer trains to provide additional capacity for the afternoon commute. Patrons are asked to [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 29, 2010 No Recess For Recession Posted by Willian Smith Recession rips at US marriages, expands income gap - Yahoo! Finance: "The figures also show that Americans on average have been spending about 36 fewer minutes in the office per week and are stuck in traffic a bit less than they had been. But that is hardly good news, either. The reason is largely t [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 27, 2010 UPDATE 1-Southwest To Buy AirTran For $1.04 Bln News | Information ... Send by Muhammad Qasim UPDATE 1-Southwest to buy AirTran for $1.04 bln Sept 27 (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines said it would acquire AirTran Holdings Inc for about $1.04 billion News | Information Sources. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 I Remember That. Posted by Willian Smith Last week, when I was working those horrendous hours in an attempt to get this project done, we had a spate of warm, even hot, weather. I had to run to the photo store around 4:30 p.m. When I came out of the office, where I'd been since 8:00, there was a smell that stopped me in my tracks. I've blog [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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