American Airlines And US Airways To Fight Justice Department Action
Companies Will Mount Vigorous And Strong Defense of Merger
Combined Airline Will Offer Benefits to Consumers, Communities and Employees
FORT WORTH, Texas and TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AMR Corporation (OTCQB: AAMRQ), the parent company of American Airlines, Inc., and US Airways Group, Inc. (NYSE: LCC) today announced that they intend to mount a vigorous and strong defense to the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) effort to block their proposed merger.
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“We believe that the DOJ is wrong in its assessment of our merger. Integrating the comp…