positive comments about the murder as well -- merger as well. >> as you just said, willie walsh said it was an aggressive strategy that put this merger on the table. what is your plan b if this doesn't work? >> well, we are highly hopeful that the process has been laid out, which i don't know we haven't seen, but the process we understand exists is the right process and they won't need be a plan b, but the process that comes forward out of american will indeed provide a fair and level playing field for all proposals to be reviewed and we couldn't be more confident in that case our proposal would prevail. so that's where we expect to go. i don't like to speculate what happens if that doesn't happen. i'll play about speculation in this case is from the time we started this, people have been telling us this hasn't been done before. there is no playbook. indeed if we find that price as doesn't go the way we hope it does, we'll call another audible. again come 100,000 jobs at stake here. that is too important to let a small group of people decided shouldn't happen. so we'll do what we nee

into one world, it creates three much more balanced alliances which, by the way, i think is why willie walsh yesterday in this town made positive comments about the merger as well, because the members of one world know the best thing for one world is for us airways and american to merge. >> as you just said, willie walsh said it was an aggressive strategy that put this merger on the table. what is your plan b if this doesn't work? >> well, we are highly hopeful that the process haas been laid out -- that's been laid out which, again, i will note we haven't seen, but the process we understand exists is the right post. and there won't need be a plan b, that the process that comes forward out of the committee, out of american will, indeed, provide a fair and level playing field for all proposals to be reviewed. and we are -- couldn't be more confident that in that case our proposal would prevail. so that's where we expect to go. i don't really like to speculate what happens if that doesn't happen because i'm not sure -- i'll tell you about speculation in this case, it's, you know, from the time