"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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Former Miami Herald reporter, Ted Reed is a business and labor writer. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Communications consultant Dan Reed has covered American Airlines for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and USA Today. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Preface by Ted Reed BR> Introduction BR> 1.ncle Ed Builds an Airline BR> 2.all Me Butch
3.eaching an Eagle to Fly
4.l Casey's Five Big Decisions
5.ur Son of a Bitch
6.ow Bob Crandall Changed the Airline Industry
7.merica West: The Little Airline That Could
8.he House That Jerry Built
9.ow Stephen Wolf Almost Fixed US Airways
10.lan B as in Bankruptcy
11.merica West Looks East 4
12.he Delta Debacle 3
13.he War Between East and West 1

14. Tough Act to Follow 1
15. Moral Man Loses a Battle 1
    16.abor Takes the Lead 2
    17.et's Meet for Dinner 2
    18.ey, What About Us? 1
    19.reaking Down the Doors 9
    Chapter Notes 9
    Bibliography 7
    Index 9