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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.
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 ContentsPreface by Ted Reed 1Introduction 31. Uncle Ed Builds an Airline 52. Call Me Butch 163. Teaching an Eagle to Fly 264. Al Casey’s Five Big Decisions 385. Our Son of a Bitch 486. How Bob Crandall Changed the Airline Industry 567. America West: The Little Airline That Could 638. The House That Jerry Built 739. How Stephen Wolf Almost Fixed US Airways 8410. Plan B as in Bankruptcy 9511. America West Looks East 10412. The Delta Debacle 11313. The War Between East and West 12114. A Tough Act to Follow 13115. A Moral Man Loses a Battle 14116. Labor Takes the Lead 15217. Let’s Meet for Dinner 16218. Hey, What About Us? 17119. Breaking Down the Doors 179Chapter Notes 189Bibliography 197Index 199
