AIRLINE OPERATIONS

Editorial cartoon illustration of shocked and panicked travelers running away from an enormous airplane featuring both American Airlines red-white-blue livery and United Airlines globe logo, symbolizing consumer anxiety about the proposed United-American Airlines merger that would control 40% of the U.S. market

Should we allow United and American to merge?

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The United Airlines–American Airlines merger everyone feared may actually be happening.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby reportedly met with administration officials at the White House in February to float an audacious proposal: a combination with American Airlines.