American Airlines, US Airways and the creation of the world's largest airline
Preface / by Ted ReedIntroduction -- Uncle ed builds an airline -- Call me butch -- Teaching an eagle to fly -- Al casey's five big decisions -- Our son of a bitch -- How bob crandall changed the airline industry -- America west: the little airline that could -- The house that jerry built -- Ho...
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Jefferson, North Carolina
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Preface / by Ted ReedIntroduction -- Uncle ed builds an airline -- Call me butch -- Teaching an eagle to fly -- Al casey's five big decisions -- Our son of a bitch -- How bob crandall changed the airline industry -- America west: the little airline that could -- The house that jerry built -- How stephen wolf almost fixed us airways -- Plan b as in bankruptcy -- America west looks east -- The delta debacle -- The war between east and west -- A tough act to follow -- A moral man loses a battle -- Labor takes the lead -- Let's meet for dinner -- Hey, what about us? -- Breaking down the doors -- Chapter notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "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 strategy to seize an industry prize and it enlisted the help of unions who engineered one of the labor movement's biggest corporate victories"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | vii, 202 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780786477838 978-0-7864-7783-8 |