Merger math

How do you make a small fortune in the airline business? You start with a big fortune.

Northwest Airlines lost $4.14 billiion in the first quarter of the year. What does burning through that kind of cash look like? Something like this, maybe:

That’s $540 in $10 bills sucked into the jet engine every second. Do that every second of the day for three months and you’d be Northwest Airlines.

Up it to $887 a second and you’d be Delta.