American Airlines, US Airways and the Creation of the World's Largest Airline

by Ted Reed, Dan Reed

Overview

The 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways marked a major step in the consolidation of the U.S. airline industry. A young management team that began plotting mergers a decade earlier designed a brilliant strategy to seize an industry prize. In doing so, it enlisted the help of unions who engineered one of the labor movement's biggest corporate victories. The airlines' histories and the inside story of the takeover is told by two veteran airline reporters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786477838
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	10/24/2014
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Former Miami Herald reporter, Ted Reed is a business and labor writer. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Communications consultant Dan Reed has covered American Airlines for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and USA Today. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Table of Contents

Preface Ted Reed 1

Introduction 3

1 Uncle Ed Builds an Airline 5

2 Call Me Butch 16

3 Teaching an Eagle to Fly 26

4 Al Casey's Five Big Decisions 38

5 Our Son of a Bitch 48

6 How Bob Crandall Changed the Airline Industry 56

7 America West: The Little Airline That Could 63

8 The House That Jerry Built 73

9 How Stephen Wolf Almost Fixed US Airways 84

10 Plan B as in Bankruptcy 95

11 America West Looks East 104

12 The Delta Debacle 113

13 The War Between East and West 121

14 A Tough Act to Follow 131

15 A Moral Man Loses a Battle 141

16 Labor Takes the Lead 152

17 Let's Meet for Dinner 162

18 Hey, What About Us? 171

19 Breaking Down the Doors 179

Chapter Notes 189

Bibliography 197

Index 199