UAL, CO Chiefs Tout Merger Benefits

By Darren Shannon

Failure to approve the proposed merger between Continental Airlines and United Airlines will produce the fare increases and job losses that worry critics, the top executives from both carriers argued during a May 27 hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights subcommittee.

Jeffrey Smisek and Glenn Tilton, of Continental and ...

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