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Article: Pentagon Set to Call Up Airlines.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- February 7, 2003
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By D.R. Stewart, Tulsa World, Okla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 7--The first casualty of war with Iraq could be the U.S. airline industry, analysts say.
As the Bush administration sets the table politically for a U.S. invasion to strip Saddam Hussein of his alleged weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon is quietly mapping plans to mobilize in a supporting role portions of the crippled airline industry.
With United Airlines and U.S. Airways -- 25 percent of the U.S. airline capacity -- in bankruptcy and four of the five other big carriers teetering on the brink, a war with Iraq could be enough to push American Airlines, ...