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United's plan for a discount carrier faces skepticism
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Daily Breeze
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February 15, 2003
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO _ United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton faces a tough audience
as he races to drum up employee support for a proposed in-house
discount carrier he says is critical to ensuring the bankrupt
company's survival.
Union officials and industry experts are strongly skeptical of the
plan for an airline within an airline _ a strategy that has failed in
the past and is being pitched by an industry outsider at the helm
less than six months.
With labor groups restive, fuel costs at two-year highs and war in
Iraq looming, the analysts say the world's second-largest airline _
even more than other troubled major carriers _ has scant margin for
error.
"This is something that's never ...
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