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Article: Company Watch - American Airlines.
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- AirGuide Business
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
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New York (AirGuideBusiness - Company Watch) Aug 2, 2009
American Airlines expects to win U.S. approval by October to form an alliance with British Airways and Spain's Iberia, and it is pinning its hopes on inter-alliance competition and global partnerships to help it survive, an executive said on Wednesday. American Airlines parent AMR Corp, British Airways, Europe's third-largest carrier by revenue, and Iberia have applied for U.S. government antitrust immunity to form a transatlantic alliance to work together on fares, schedules and cost cutting. The carriers have been under growing pressure after the U.S. government earlier this month approved a similar ...