The anticipated marriage of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways Group Inc. would represent a departure from other airline mergers in recent decades, which had been aimed more at creating a huge route network that leapfrogs the competition, rather than at culling money-losing and overlapping flights, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The prospective deal could restore American, which has suffered billions of dollars of losses in recent years, to its former status as the world's biggest carrier. The new American would have hubs at seven of the nine busiest U.S. airports and boast a strong presence in Europe and Latin America.
