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Airline merger brings optimism
US Airways' merger with America West, born of desperation, is creating hope for a new start.
By Tom Belden
Inquirer Staff Writer
W. Douglas Parker, chief executive officer in waiting of US Airways, ventured into the employee-only areas of the Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C., airports last month, meeting dozens of the airline's ticket agents, flight attendants, pilots and baggage handlers.
Parker, who is now CEO of US Airways Group Inc.'s merger partner America West Airlines, said that what he heard from US Airways workers bore a striking similarity to the way America West employees talked in the summer of 2000, when his airline had one of the industry's worst records for on-time flights
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US Airways' merger with America West, born of desperation, is creating hope for a new start.
By Tom Belden
Inquirer Staff Writer
W. Douglas Parker, chief executive officer in waiting of US Airways, ventured into the employee-only areas of the Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C., airports last month, meeting dozens of the airline's ticket agents, flight attendants, pilots and baggage handlers.
Parker, who is now CEO of US Airways Group Inc.'s merger partner America West Airlines, said that what he heard from US Airways workers bore a striking similarity to the way America West employees talked in the summer of 2000, when his airline had one of the industry's worst records for on-time flights
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