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American gets bigger
« on: February 14, 2013, 07:20:10 AM »
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-sources-american-airlines-us-004018969.html

Bullish for higher prices, the economy will be booming soon!

We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.

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Re: American gets bigger
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2013, 07:56:42 AM »
I still miss Piedmont Airlines (taken over by US Airways back in the mid 1980s).

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Re: American gets bigger
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2013, 11:34:46 AM »
Midway, Republic, Western, all gone.

Check out this list -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States

That's a lot of consolidation and elimination!
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Re: American gets bigger
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2013, 12:26:16 PM »
Midway, Republic, Western, all gone.

Check out this list -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States

That's a lot of consolidation and elimination!

Well, can't have all that competition out there.

I still have a very old Pan Am sweatshirt.
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Re: American gets bigger
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2013, 01:20:26 PM »
Midway, Republic, Western, all gone.

Check out this list -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_the_United_States

That's a lot of consolidation and elimination!

Well, can't have all that competition out there.

I still have a very old Pan Am sweatshirt.

Channeling that old dufus Earnest Hollings..."thare's too much compah-tee-shone ought thayah"!
We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.