Why American Airlines Remains Stuck at the Gate

摘要

For much of the past decade, U.S. airlines have scrambled to remake themselves. United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, US Airways Group, and Northwest Airlines all made trips through bankruptcy court and emerged with trimmer operating and labor costs. Then many carriers went into acquisition mode. Delta snapped up Northwest in 2008, United this month completed its takeover of Continental Airlines, and on Sept. 27 Southwest Airlines said it will buy AirTran.