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...The US Department of Justice pointed to airlines’ recovering profitability in August as one of the main reasons to seek to block the proposed merger between AMR Corporation, American Airlines’ parent, and...
...Those deals mean that the US domestic airline market is far more concentrated than the international markets where the two airlines also operate....
...But even a reduction in domestic capacity may not help as much as hoped....
...In terms of passenger traffic, the pair will overtake Delta, which merged with Northwest Airlines two years ago, as the global leader, and relegate American Airlines to a distant third place in the domestic...
...US Airways said on Thursday it had broken off merger talks with United Airlines, leaving the way clear for rival Continental Airlines to pursue a deal....
...The apparent success of Delta’s 2008 merger with Northwest helped prompt the airlines to start talks again about consolidation, two years after Continental abandoned a proposed deal with United at the 11th...
...“Any merger involving Northwest Airlines, in order to avoid our vigorous opposition, must clearly be in the best interest of NWA pilots, its customers and employees,” said Dave Stevens, the Northwest pilots...
...Like many of its peers, Northwest scheduled fewer domestic flights this year....
...A merged Delta-United would surpass AMR’s American Airlines as the biggest domestic carrier....
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