US Airways is readying for formal antitrust approval for a merger with AMR. Now is the timeframe for shareholders to demand an umbrella company to keep the two brands and save on merger costs. Are you getting a sense of déjà vu? You should be – think back to 2006 when a certain US Airways launched a hostile takeover for Delta while it was in Chapter 11. And at the very same time SIA was trying to merge with Qantas. At the time we all thought great, consolidation is actually happening. The reality was that the whole lot failed. The

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