United Continental CEO Is Person Of The Year

By Darren Shannon
Washington

Legislators are notoriously opposed to the airline industry’s current wave of consolidation, and that was clearly evident during a few weeks in June when Washington, suffering another of its blazing summers, was abuzz with fiery rhetoric and thundering diatribes against the proposed merger of two industry heavyweights. But as Continental Airlines’ Chief Executive Jeffery A. Smisek sat next to his compatriot from United Airlines in the firing line of indignant lawmakers, he ...

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